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Kevin Hoffman

I started working on .NET back before the first betas and have spent a good portion of my career building just about every type of .NET application - from windows phone to ASP.NET and WPF. I've written over a dozen books on .NET covering everything from language fundamentals to websites to e-Commerce. I've also spent the last several years working with open source tools and languages to building microservices and cloud-native architectures in Java, Scala, and Go. I've just finished a book on cloud-native microservices in Go and am now working on one for ASP.NET Core.

Content

Baking security into your cloud-native application

October 18, 2016

The importance of authentication and authorization in modern app development.

Telemetry, an essential part of any cloud-native app

October 11, 2016

Why telemetry, a new factor in app development, can mean the difference between success and failure in the cloud.

Concurrency in modern apps

September 29, 2016

Thriving in the cloud with horizontal scaling.

Stateless processes in cloud-native apps

September 20, 2016

Understanding statelessness, the share-nothing pattern, and data caching in modern app development.

Port binding in cloud-native apps

September 13, 2016

Avoiding container-determined ports and micromanaging port assignments.

Reevaluating administrative processes for apps in the cloud

September 7, 2016

Ask yourself if you really need administrative processes, or if a simple change in architecture could obviate them.

Environment parity for rapidly deployed cloud-native apps

August 31, 2016

How to instill confidence that your app will work everywhere it’s meant to by reducing gaps in time, people, and resources.

Backing services for modern application development

August 23, 2016

Embracing bound resources in cloud-native apps.

Embracing disposable processes

August 16, 2016

Building cloud-native apps that start rapidly and shut down gracefully.

A cloud-native approach to logs

August 10, 2016

Simplifying your application’s log emission process.

Configuration, credentials, and code in cloud-native apps

August 2, 2016

Kevin Hoffman adds to the concept of configuration, a classic app development factor.

Design, build, release, run

July 26, 2016

Including design in every iteration of your cloud-native app development.

Modern dependency management for cloud-native apps

July 19, 2016

How to adapt dependency management—a classic app development factor—to thrive in cloud environments.

An API-first approach for cloud-native app development

July 12, 2016

Kevin Hoffman adds the concept of API first to the original 12 factors of app development.

Using a single codebase for your cloud-native app

July 6, 2016

Kevin Hoffman discusses the “one codebase, one application” factor—the first consideration when delivering cloud-native applications.