Rik van den Berg, Tech Lead, writing about .NET, Azure, AWS, DevOps and AI. My surname translates to "fromthemountain" hence this blog's name.

Azure CDN returns "InvalidUri" when using Terraform

The error was so vague and the fact that CDN changes take some time to propagate, it took me more effort than I wanted. So, here we are, I'm writing this blog post in the hopes of saving you some time. I ran into some connectivity errors when connecting an Azure CDN to an Azure blob storage.

Different kind of testing strategies with ASP.NET Core: Using Docker to write Integration tests

Greetings once again, dear readers. It's been quite some time since my last entry, and I'm delighted to resume our discussion. In this ongoing series on ASP.NET Core testing strategies, today marks the unveiling of our third installment. In our previous post, we ventured into

Different kinds of testing strategies with ASP.NET Core: Component tests

Want to test ASP.NET Core applications in isolation that use HTTP clients and database integrations? Then read this blog about how to build small and isolated components tests that are aimed to run tests purely on your application code

Different kind of testing strategies with ASP.NET Core: The basics

In this post we explain the different kind of tests we can make for ASP.NET Core applications, such as "component tests" and "integration test". This is the first post in a series of posts.

Starting a Ghost blog for the cost of $5 per month

What is this website? Which CMS are you using and and how are am I hosting it. Please read this post to answer all these questions. We are using Ghost as CMS, DigitalOcean for our hosting and some other neat little tools