Kalle Marjokorpi

TL;DR: Lead Architects often carry the responsibility for technical vision without the formal authority to mandate it.

This blog post explores Azure networking, focusing on Azure NAT Gateway and the considerations encountered along the way.

The .NET Aspire Dashboard is a centralized view into distributed application insights, environment variables, logs, traces, and monitoring capabilities.

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is a method for overseeing an application's entire journey from creation to design, development, and retirement.

Last year, I read a book called Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach by Mark Richards and Neal Ford.

I have been using Microsoft Loop for a while now as a note-taking and collaboration tool for work-related things.

My current Windows 11 setup on a home PC has become a bit unstable and slow.

This blog post is the documentation of results of my research on acquiring new hardware for a NAS/home server.

In the earlier blog post, I showed how to configure a Curity Identity Server container in a .NET Aspire solution.

I started to use .NET Aspire when the first preview was launched.

This post explains how to set up .NET Aspire solution which runs Curity Identity Server container and shows the power of .NET Aspire container orchestration.

Microsoft released in the mid of December 2024 an open-source utility called MarkItDown.

It's time to reflect on and revisit some highlights and lessons learned from 2024.

This is a story about how the .NET Aspire influenced to my preferred technology stack when building native cloud applications to Azure Cloud.

My previous blog post showed how to create a RAG application using .NET Aspire, Ollama, and Semantic Kernel.