Solutions architect and open source enthusiast.

Technology advocate who loves everything on cloud, IoT, Kubernetes, security, AI, Linux, Vim,
security and software architecture.

Check my blog at: blog.hildenco.com

• High-performing Solutions Architect leading teams building cloud native apps using a wide range of technologies.
• Technology passionate, avid reader and open-source enthusiast
• Arctic Code Vault Contributor (whatever that might even mean 😁)
• Officially retired bass-player 🎸
• Outside of my day job, I write a little about technology on my blog.

• HildenCo | Blog: Blog about development, cloud and open-source software
• Linux4Us: Talk Linux and write tutorials and tips about Linux (under development)
• Vim4Us: Tips in tricks to learn and master Vim (under development)
• Golang4Us: Tips in tricks to learn the Go programming Language (under development)

Some of my most popular open-source tools were created to explain tech stuff in my blog are:

• aspnet-microservices: a sample microservice architecture using .NET Core, Docker, Azure and Kubernetes.
• aspnet-distributed-caching: sample repo to demo an ASP.NET Core 3.1 website distributed caching with Docker, MongoDB, Redis using Docker Compose.
• aspnet-docker: simple/sample demo of ASP.NET Core and Docker using .NET Core 3.1 LTS
• masstransit-rabbitmq: Modern MassTransit, RabbitMQ, .NET Core 3.1 implementation
• aspnet-ai: sample demo on how to enable Application Insights telemetry on an ASP.NET Core web applications
• aspnet-sendgrid: ASP.NET Core website demoing SendGrid, Azure and ASP.NET Core best practices.
• nuget-pkg-demo: Project demoing how to push NuGet packages to GitHub package repos.
• aspnet-github-actions: Project to demo building ASP.NET images using GitHub actions
• aspnet-async-communication: Async resquest/response exchange between two ASP.NET Core websites via RabbitMQ queues using MassTransit, Docker, Docker Compose and VueJS
• masstransit-rabbitmq: Modern MassTransit, RabbitMQ, .NET Core 3.1 implementation
• gotrans: A multiplatform tool written in Go to translate text in the terminal using Azure Azure Translation Services

Please check some of my most popular blog posts.

.NET/ASP.NET/Azure:

• Distributed caching in ASP.NET Core using Redis, MongoDB and Docker
• Async Request/Response with MassTransit, RabbitMQ, Docker and .NET core
• Adding Application Insights to a ASP.NET Core website
• Creating ASP.NET Core websites with Docker
• Accessing Entity Framework context on the background on .NET Core
• Getting Enum descriptions using C#
• How to Import CSVs with .NET Core and C#
• MassTransit, a real alternative to NServiceBus?
• Configuration in .NET Core console applications
• Send emails from ASP.NET Core websites using SendGrid and Azure
• How to copy data between Azure databases
• How to enable ASP.NET error pages using Azure Serial Console
• Configuration in .NET Core console applications

Linux and open-source:

• Why I use Fedora
• How I fell in love with i3
• How to create a Ubuntu Desktop on Azure
• Why use CentOS
• 20 tips to manage Linux VMs on Azure
• Windows Subsystem for Linux, the best way to learn Linux on Windows

Agile:

• Definition of Ready
• Interview questions for QA analysts

GitHub:

• Hosting NuGet packages on GitHub
• Hosting Docker images on GitHub

Books:

• Hello, Startup - A book for developers building their startups
• Stealing the Network

Reviews:

• An in depth review of the RavenDB Cloud

Security:

• How and why use stronger passwords
• Security and Ethics
• Security Boundaries
• Web Development best practices: 9 tips for stronger passwords
• Integrated security vulnerability alerts on GitHub - Why it matters
• Security is only as strong as your weakest node
• Security and development: how much is being done?

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