Thiago Passos

Micro Frontends: Why, When, and How?

Micro Frontends is an architectural approach in which a frontend application is broken down into smaller, independent, and decoupled parts, where each part represents a distinct feature or function. These individual pieces, called micro frontends, can be developed, deployed, and maintained independently. Let’s explore why, when, and how to

BFF with YARP, Docker and .NET

Backend for Frontend (BFF) is a pattern that creates a dedicated backend service for each frontend (e.g., web, mobile) to better optimize API responses, enhance security, and streamline communication between frontends and backend services. In this context, using YARP (Yet Another Reverse Proxy) and Docker can significantly improve routing,

Public Speaking

I was accepted to speak at a conference! Now what?

I started my public speaking journey about 3 years ago and I have learnt lots since then. In fact, before then I was really scared to speak in public. I'm not the most comfortable or proficient person on stage but things do get easier. I remember the very

azure functions

Can I Develop Az Functions on a Mac?

I started writing this blog post a very long time ago when I switched for the first time in my life to a Mac as my main computer. I was super excited to have the shiniest laptop in town and I was sure I could do all my work on

Azure

Replacing Redis by Cosmos DB

I've been using Redis for a while now and it just works, but I find particularly painful when I want to see what's cached without writing a custom tool for that. Another reason that drove me to try this solution was the fact that I'

JSON

Converting JSON Objects into C# List<>

The problem I have is basically to fix some weird data structure coming from a data provider, which I'm sure there's some background story on why the structure is that way, into a reasonable structure that I can later on map into a model or entity

postman

Postman - Data Driven API requests

I've always known that Postman is powerful tool and a must for any developer and for several years I've been using it just for some trivial testing, nothing too crazy until I found the need to actually do something more meaningful with it. Recently I had

e2e test

No Excuses Not To Have E2E Tests

I haven't always been a big tester, I started finding the great advantages of unit testing the back end just a couple of years ago. With E2E tests I barely got close, everything I tried was so fiddly and use to break so easily. Well, Cypress changed my

JSON

Mocking your API with JSON Server

I've just learned recently about this NPM package to mock a REST API using a JSON file. That's a life changer and I see myself using it for any front-end development I do in the future. It's super simple to get started, all you&

Azure

Deploying Vue.js to Azure Static Website

We've been putting together the content for the workshop Jason and I will run at NDC London in January and part of the story is the deployment and why not using something brand new which is the Azure Static Websites? So let's give it a go.

... Next steps

It's time to move on. I left a small consultancy a bit over 4 years ago in Melbourne to move to Brisbane and join this awesome company that is SSW, but an unrefusable opportunity came up and I couldn't let it pass. I've loved

angular

Rich Text Editor for Angular

Okay, so I've published my very first npm package. Let's start from the beginning. We've got an internal MVC application that uses the Kendo UI from Progress, the rich text editor to be more specific. We started migrating that application to Angular and, to

angular

Push Notifications + Angular + .NET Core

I'm sure 100% of you have already heard about what a push notification is, that's what apps and several web sites do to get your attention even if you don't have their app/website open. But the implementation of it might seem a little

NDC

NDC Sydney 2018

In the last 2 years, I went to NDC Sydney and it's always been a great event, possibly the best conference I've been, but this time it would be different, this time I wasn't only attending but also presenting. While I did a hell

Azure

Getting Started: EF Core + Cosmos Db

I was really looking forward to having the Cosmos Db provider for Entity Framework Core. So much that I actually submitted a talk for NDC Sydney about how to get started with it even before the provider was out, and it's finally out, still in preview so a

Azure

Azure Functions for the Enterprise + Setting up CI/CD Pipelines

In the last post, we talked about how to keep your API layer as slim as possible and then expose them through Azure Functions and I finished the post deploying to Azure using the frightful right-click publish. And as promised, this time we're going to go through the

Azure

Azure Functions for the Enterprise - Exposing Endpoints through Functions

In a previous post, I shared a concept I've been working on to replace different areas of an enterprise application with Azure Functions, but still keep all the best practices. In this post I'm going to cover a very practical way to expose the endpoints of

Dad of 3 - Maia's birth

This is not one more tech post, this is not about work. This is the experience I had with the birth of my third child. Well, at the end all experiences you have, in and out of the office, will lead you to the person you are, in and out

Azure

Azure Functions for the Enterprise - Concept

I've been playing with Azure Functions for a long time and even though I think it's a great piece of technology, I couldn't find a way to justify losing all the best practices just to start playing with a new toy, especially in a

entity framework core

Overcoming EF Core Migration Conflicts

Interesting times!!! We've been having issues with EF Core migrations for while now and we're trying overcome them as we go, trying to put a process in place so we have less conflicts as possible. But still, once in a while, people forget to follow the

Azure

YouTube: Azure In 5 Minutes

It's been a while now that I started working with Azure and learning about all the different services that it provides, but there's still so much to learn and so much to share. Azure is HUGE!!! So I decided to start a new playlist today Azure

angular

YouTube: Angular In 5 Minutes

Last weekend we had the Angular Hack Day here in Brisbane which is a great event ran by SSW to help others to get started with Angular. We had some very cool talks (the full video of the talks is here), but we've failed badly in one thing,

signalr

Getting Started With SignalR, .NET Core 2.1 And Angular

About 3 months ago I wrote a post with the steps to set up SignalR for a new .NET Core 2.0 app with Angular. I thought it was really amazing how easy it was, but now that .NET Core 2.1 is available, no messing up with non-default npm

azure functions

Azure Functions: Dependency Injection

Can Azure Functions do that? Well, I'm always getting surprised by its power and flexibility. I just came across a pretty cool implementation of dependency injection for Azure Functions and would love to share it here. The package I'm going to use in this post is

How To Turn A Nasty Email Into A Win

Let me tell you a story about a project that I worked on. It was quite challenging for several reasons. Challenging is good though, especially if it's technically challenging as I'm a technical person. But what happens when it's a social challenge? I still