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APM with Microsoft .NET Core on Azure

Created: Sep 20, 2017
One of the things I am very interested in is the .NET stack and especially the .NET Core platform. In this blog post I want to briefly highlight what it takes to get a sample .NET Core application up and running on Azure and how to use New Relic’s Application Performance Monitoring (APM) to monitor this application. Please note: while I am writing this, the latest version of .NET Core SDK is .
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New Relic's APM demo on IBM BlueMix

Created: Aug 07, 2017
Last week, we had the chance to present at a local Cloud Foundry Meetup in Stuttgart/Germany and the key topic was around IBM BlueMix (BM). My idea was to show and demo something around New Relic and BM. Due to my ignorance, I actually did not know that IBM BM is also based upon the open source platform Cloud Foundry (CF). Interestingly enough, I was involved in quite some CF engagements in my previous life and so I knew what it would take to get a so-called Spring-Boot type application (https://projects.
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Azure Mobile Center ... and the art of debugging :-)

Created: Mar 30, 2017
As a side project, I recently worked on creating a mobile app for Android (and iOS to be completed). To be honest, the development effort was quite straight forward. The development stack focused on Xamarin, because I do not know a thing about creating a native app for Android nor iOS. But, I do know C# … so, for me this was a natural choice :-) My knowledge in the area of Xamarin was quite limited and I did not create an app for Android or iOS before.
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What the heck is a parser-combinator?

Created: Feb 28, 2017
Background and Basics In a recent project engagement, we were assigned the job to migrate a COBOL-based mainframe application to a new environment. The core theme specifically for this project follows a re-hosting approach. The reasoning for this type of approach is agreed upon with the customer mainly due to time and cost. Of course, the scope and effort for such a transformation is quite huge and there are many tasks involved for the complete application to run on a completely different platform.
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Re-architect applications for the cloud

Created: Feb 07, 2017
The path towards cloud-native applications is being adopted by more and more companies. For green-field applications this is a natural choice to architect your applications in a way so that they can be developed, deployed and operated in a cloud environment. This of course could mean on-prem, hybrid or public cloud. When thinking about your heritage applications and your desire to modernize those, a cloud migration isn’t typically an easy thing to do.
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What’s so important about Asymmetrical Transformation?

Created: Jan 30, 2017
As a business technology architect helping clients transform their applications, I sometimes feel more like a software archeologist. It is very interesting to see how heterogeneous the technology landscape is and how diverse it is being used at customers of all size and industry sector. But, there is one common question that we see throughout our engagements: “How can we transform this heritage to a future state?” and “Can you help us keep what’s important, but make it easier to manage?

SAP HANA Cloud Platform – custom application deployment ... lessons learned

Created: Dec 23, 2016
As I have mentioned in a previous post, I finally managed to deploy and run a custom application in SAP HANA Cloud Platform (HCP). The difficult part for me was not setting up the environment per se, but to solve all the source dependencies and unknowns around the platform’s prerequisites. I found it really challenging to actually find the relevant information on the web, so I decided to write this post to list a set of issues I ran into and how I managed to solve them.
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SAP HANA Cloud Platform - custom application deployment

Created: Dec 21, 2016
I am very excited that I managed to deploy and execute my first application on SAP HANA Cloud Platform (https://hcp.sap.com/ (original URL https://hcp.sap.com/)) today. It uses the native in-memory database and application services. The base application source code was generated using Ciber Momentum Engineer (https://momentum.ciber.com/) and then customized to fit their platform-as-a-service environment. I have to admit that this was not quite straight forward and I had to go through a significant amount of trial & error before I finally managed to deploy the application itself without any issues and exceptions being thrown.

The next break-down is about to happen (soon)

Created: Jul 27, 2016
<img src="https://cdn.kimpel.com/WP_20160224_18_22_20_Rich_LI-168x300.jpg" alt="WP_20160224_18_22_20_Rich_LI"> Banking Briefing I just recently did a talk on application modernization for attendees from the financial services industry. The discussions we had afterwards were quite interesting and I enjoyed the sharing of ideas and potential solutions. Interestingly enough, on my flight back home, I read an article in one of the biggest German newspapers. The title of this article was (more or less) “The next break-down is about to happen soon”.

Application Modernization and containers

Created: Jul 13, 2016
<img src="https://cdn.kimpel.com/WP_20160606_20_12_13_Pro.jpg" alt="WP_20160606_20_12_13_Pro"> I have just recently watched the keynote sessions of the current dockercon'16. It’s been very interesting and eye-opening. You can still watch the recordings here: https://2016.dockercon.com/ (original URL https://2016.dockercon.com/). I do use Docker for some internal infrastructure deployments. It enables me to efficiently use a broad set of different application servers that form a deployment scenario for a complete solution. One of the key themes I heard from the Docker conference are the topics around application modernization.
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