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RED and USE methods, picking metrics that actually matter, custom metrics in .NET with System.Diagnostics.Metrics and OpenTelemetry, and the art of not measuring everything just because you can

Structured logging done right for backend engineers - what to log, what to stop logging, and why your current logs are probably making incidents harder, not easier

A practical follow-up to CancellationToken basics: request aborts, linked tokens, timeouts, background services, and the mistakes that show up in production backends

The blog gets a fresh new look, powered by Astro and the AstroPaper theme

A bird's eye view of Cloud Computing, different kinds of services available and some essential concepts along the way

A deep dive into C#'s CancellationToken, how to work with them and some recommended patterns while adopting them

How the default singleton pattern becomes an anti-pattern at times and how we can improve on its flaws in different ways to create ambient services in your code

A introductory post talking about fluent apis, its pros and cons and how to design one for yourself from scratch

How I made a custom attribute to decorate my usual tests with extra behavior for tests written using the MS Test Framework

A simple trick on how to use multiple Custom Script Extensions for Azure VMs, when you want to use multiple custom script extensions in one deployment at different stages of deployment, in a single ARM template

A short post into how you can use ARM templates to deploy a storage container pre-populated with files

My plans and upcoming things I might write about on this blog

An update on the tech stack and look of my blog

Discover various patterns of Unit Tests with simple examples and how you can use them to improve your UTs game

Discover different types of tests and testing strategies

A 'from scratch' implementation of Naive Bayes algorithm to find whether a message is spam or not and a kick off to the series 'Machine Learning, with the Maths'

A dive into C# Properties and various interesting patterns of using them into your code

A super short introduction to Conditional Probability with a fun tricky problem involving a family and their unknown children

An interesting problem I encountered while working and an equally interesting solution suggested to me. How to use the same code to create complex data structure of two different classes

A short introduction and welcome to my blog