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Securing Web Services Against Unwanted Traffic with NGINX

  • April 29, 2025 April 29, 2025
  • by Alexander

Protect your web services from common attacks by blocking unwanted requests with NGINX. In this post, I’ll show you how to set up smart deny rules to secure your applications easily and globally.

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Optimizing API by Offloading Responsibilities to an API Gateway

  • March 20, 2025 March 20, 2025
  • by Alexander

Optimizing API migration is easier than you think! Learn how an API Gateway can help offload authentication, caching, rate limiting, and more—reducing complexity and improving scalability. Read now to explore top API Gateway solutions like Istio, AWS API Gateway, Azure APIM, and NGINX! 🔥

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How to Clean Up Local Branches of Remote Merged Branches

  • March 11, 2025 March 11, 2025
  • by Alexander

Regularly cleaning up local branches is a simple but effective way to keep your repository tidy. By removing branches that have already been merged at origin, you reduce clutter, avoid confusion, and improve your development workflow.

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Resolving Namespace Overriding in Argo CD with Kustomize

  • September 27, 2024 March 07, 2025
  • by Alexander

Struggling with namespace overrides in Argo CD when deploying Kubernetes resources across multiple namespaces? In my latest post, I share how to fix namespace conflicts using Kustomize's build options in Argo CD

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Connecting to Gitlab's private Nuget registry

  • June 03, 2024 March 07, 2025
  • by Alexander

Running a nuget registry for your project might be a good solution for a small project, however the setup is not that smooth as expected.

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Why Istio?

  • May 15, 2024 March 07, 2025
  • by Alexander

Istio is definitely one of most popular Service Meshes on the market, let's talk about the reasoning perspectives of a Developer, an Architect, and a DevOps Engineer

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Solved: Invalid combination of TargetFramework and AzureFunctionsVersion is set

  • July 25, 2023
  • by Alexander

Solved: Invalid combination of TargetFramework and AzureFunctionsVersion is set.

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When Clouds Clash: Understanding Kubernetes Cluster Failures and How to Overcome Them

  • July 17, 2023
  • by Alexander

Surviving the Chaos: How we forgot about our dev cluster and it hit us back

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Collecting .NET API metrics with Konso

  • May 25, 2023
  • by Alexander

Uncover the secrets to effective .NET API metric collection using Konso

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Applying Value Tracking for your .NET 7 application with Konso

  • May 19, 2023
  • by Alexander

Discover how to enhance your .NET 7 application with Konso by implementing value tracking for real-time performance insights and user behavior analysis.

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  • Securing Web Services Against Unwanted Traffic with NGINX
  • Optimizing API by Offloading Responsibilities to an API Gateway
  • How to Clean Up Local Branches of Remote Merged Branches
  • Resolving Namespace Overriding in Argo CD with Kustomize
  • Connecting to Gitlab's private Nuget registry

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