.NET Core’s built-in dependency injection support is easy to use and well-supported, but it’s quite feature-thin compared to some other IoC containers. To fill one important gap, I’ve implemented an abstract factory facility that works with MS DI, and published it via NuGet. In cases where a service might need…

If your Azure Function encounters a problem on startup, you’ll see this message when you hit the function site: Then, if you look in the Azure portal, under Overview, you’ll see something unhelpful like this:

The Goal — Correlation Ids in Logs We collect logs throughout our applications, they are sent to an HTTP endpoint at Sumologic, meaning we can browse and search through all these logs in the same place. This is great for exception messages, and anything where a single log message gives us all the information we need, however…