This blog post is about how to configure health check in ASP.NET Core. Health monitoring an important aspect in case of Micro services. It will help orchestrators to monitor and manage containers.

This blog post is about how to configure and use ASP.NET Core Social Authentication without ASP.NET Core identity. In this post I am using Google Authentication provider, you can use Facebook or Twitter. Only the authentication provider and associated configuration only will change.

If you’re building SAAS applications, it is a good practise to provide sub domains to tenants. If you’re using Azure VMs it is simple and straight forward. You can configure the A NAME in DNS records and create a wild card CNAME record to the domain name of your Azure VM, so that all the subdomain requests comes to your VM - IIS. And application can decide which tenant based on the HOST header.

We can improve our personal branding is creating content and by posting to social media consistently. In this article, I am creating an Azure Serverless function, which helps to fetch news articles using Azure Cognitive Services — Bing News API and post content to Twitter. I am also using Azure Text Analytics service, which will extract key phrases from the news title — which helps to tag the tweets.

The whole world is fighting against the Novel Corona Virus or COVID 19. One of the major challenges the world faces is fake news. The WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had said in February itself, “We are not just fighting an epidemic; we are fighting an infodemic.”. Many organizations like WHO, CDC etc publish information and answers to frequently asked questions that can be accessed through their websites. But most of the times it is hard to find answers to specific questions.

This post is about how to create a Zoom bot with ASP.NET Core. Zoom is a collaboration solution by Zoom Communications Inc. In the Zoom developer documentation, they are implemented a Chat bot using Nodejs. In this post I am explaining how to implement a simple chatbot using ASP.NET Core.

This post is about how to create a mailinator clone using SendGrid Inbound parse webhooks and ASP.NET Core. Mailinator is a service which offers dynamic email inbox for testing purposes. In this post I am creating a similar service using SendGrid Inbound parse webhooks - which helps to listen for incoming emails. To start you need a SendGrid account. Once you create a SendGrid account, you need to authenticate a domain. For this post I have created an SendGrid account from Azure portal. You can create Authenticated domains from this Page. Next open your Inbound parse settings, you can get it from Settings > Inbound Parse or Inbound Parse Settings. Next you need to add your receiving domain and Webhook URL.