Observability goes beyond basic logging to provide deeper insights into system performance and behavior. Carl walks us through setting up observability in a .NET application using OpenTelemetry and the .NET Aspire Dashboard. By integrating logs, metrics, and traces, he demonstrates how to track requests, monitor performance, and gain real-time visibility into an Umbraco application—solving problems that traditional logging alone can’t easily address.
In the second part of his series on Docker, Carl digs into more advanced concepts to build upon what he's shown us already. This month he shows us new topics including networking, Dockerfiles, and how to persist data between restarts.
Containers make your applications faster, more efficient, more scalable and more resilient, but they are used much less for websites. In the first part of a series on Umbraco and Docker, Carl introduces us to Docker containers and shows us how to run a basic Umbraco 9 site in one so that we can get all the benefits.
One of the exciting aspects of the UniCore project to make Umbraco run on .NET Core is that it lets us take advantage of .NET Core's cross platform capabilities. This opens up all sorts of possibilities as it lets us run Umbraco anywhere, as Carl shows us by running Umbraco on a Raspberry Pi!
