Thorsten Hans
Tales and stories about Cloud-Native computing, Serverless, Containers, Azure and Kubernetes
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A comprehensive guide on authoring plugins for Fermyon Spin
Learn and understand how you can build plugins for Fermyon Spin by exploring the check-for-update plugin.
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to use pattern matching
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we will look at pattern matching in Rust.
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to share state between threads
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we explore how to share state between multiple threads.
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to write a function-like macro
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we learn how to create a simple function-like macro in Rust.
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to write an HTTP API with Actix
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we learn how to build a simple HTTP API using the popular Actix crate.
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to Implement the Builder Pattern
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we learn how to implement the builder pattern for creating new instances of a custom struct
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to Implement a Generic Stack
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we learn how to implement a generic stack in Rust leveraging the Rust standard library
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to Retrieve Image Dimensions
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we learn how to retrieve the dimensions of an image (either PNG or JPEG) in Rust using the image crate
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to create a TCP Server
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we tale a look at building a simple TCP-Echo Server
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to Implement Binary Search
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we learn how to implement a binary search in combination with generics and pattern matching only leveraging Rust standard library
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to Read a CSV File
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we learn how to read different CSV files in Rust using the csv crate
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How to use Azure Cosmos DB as a key-value store for Fermyon Spin
Fermyon Spin now supports using Azure Cosmos DB as key-value store for your Spin apps. This article explains how to get it up and running in no time!
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to Compute a SHA256 Hash of a File
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we learn how to compute a SHA256 hash of a file
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to Download an Image to a File
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we download an image from the web and store it in a file
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Weekly Rust Trivia: How to Get all Files in a Directory
Weekly Rust Trivia 🦀: This week, we look at how to build a vector containing all file names of a particular directory
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How I replaced the backend of my blog with Spin & Fermyon Cloud
This story explains and illustrates how I migrated the backend for my blog from containers to WebAssembly with Fermyon Spin & Fermyon Cloud
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A First Glance at the Spin Router for Rust
With Fermyon Spin 1.1, Spin SDKs for Rust and GoLang come built-in routers for HTTP apps. This article demonstrates how to use the new router in Rust to layout a full-fledged HTTP API.
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Let's build a HTTP router for Spin with Rust
In this post, we will build a HTTP router in Rust using enums and pattern matching to address more sophisticated routing scenarios in single component Spin apps.
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Let Spin lift your key-value store
This article demonstrates how to leverage the built-in key-value store in Fermyon Spin by building an URL shortener.
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CRUD in WebAssembly with Fermyon Spin and MySQL
This post demonstrates how to persist data in MySQL when building cloud-native applications with Fermyon Spin. Leveraging the Spin SDK for Rust.
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Master configuration data in Fermyon Spin
Learn how to use sensitive and non-sensitive configuration data in Fermyon Spin. Pull secrets from HashiCorp Vault, and read configuration data from components written in Rust.
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Azure Blob Storage using the Azure SDK for Go
This article demonstrates how to authenticate against Azure using azidentity and azblob to interact with Azure Blob Storage data plane using the Azure SDK for Go
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Building Microservices With WebAssembly and Fermyon Spin
WebAssembly will change the way we architecture cloud-native applications. Start your WebAssembly journey on the server and in the cloud with Fermyon Spin
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Hot-Reload .NET Configuration in Kubernetes with ConfigMaps
Learn how to implement hot-reload for your configuration data in .NET by leveraging Kubernetes' ConfigMaps
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Instrumenting .NET Apps with OpenTelemetry
Observability is a critical attribute that every cloud-native applications should address. This article explains how to implement observability in .NET applications with OpenTelemetry.