Using .Net core default logger to log system events in production environment quite often can complicate things when attempting to aggregate and analise logs from multiple services via log analysers such as Sumo Logic . Default Logger console writes are easy to read but basically become useless when thousands of messages are being collected into centralised analysis dashboard. Serilog library on the other hand allows for structured event logging. Also, with the help of various extensions and segregation of settings for dev and prod environment it possible to output coloured logs for ease of reading in IDE and de-serialise log message with JSON for improved data analysis.

Originally published on 2018-12-01 Comparing lazy instance creation in C# vs Java 8, (continuing my previous post ) In C# there is Lazy class, so for example to make a lazy property in C# becomes even more elegant: (note: in this example static base factory of Clazz requires an instance of calling class) private Lazy&lt;Clazzz&gt; _clazzField; public Clazzz ClazzzProperty => _clazzField.Value; SomeConstructor() { _clazzField = new Lazy<Clazzz>(GetPrimaryController(this)); } LazyClass(Microsoft doc)

Originally published on 2018-05-25 Following up on Enable TomCat on MacOs Server , simply using Homebrew makes things so much easier. Just delete old Tomcat and run brew install tomcat then run brew services start tomcat …and it works.