2022 Articles

This blog post is also available as a video on my YouTube Channel.

Ever wondered how to get docker images to run nicely with XUnit tests? Then you’re in the right place. Let me show you how to setup Localstack with XUnit properly so that the only thing you need to worry about is having docker running. I’m using Localstack as the example but you can repeat a very similar process using the techniques shown here.

In this article, we’re going to take a look at the different ways that you can make your .NET applications more stable by using 3 different patterns: Retrying with decorrelated jitter, bulkheads and circuit breakers.

In this article, we’re going to take a look at how to create a private Helm repository with Github Pages. This guide requires you to have a Github Enterprise license as private Github Pages are only available to enterprise customers. I’m showing this approach for the scenarios where setting up something like ChartMuseum isn’t possible or unwanted. Although this guide uses helm as the example, you can extend this to host anything under a privately authenticated Github page.

In this article we’re taking a look at how to extend the AWS SDK for .NET, which can be useful for various tasks like adding in some custom observability components into the request pipeline. This article is a companion resource for the video linked above in case you prefer a written version. I’m actively using the approach described here to implement distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry for all AWS calls at work.

This is the next part of my series taking a look at some of the lesser known features of the C# language. Today we will be looking at duck typing and how it is used in C#. Much like the previous article, your millage may vary in terms of actually using these features for day to day programming, so think of this series as raising awareness that these things exist, not that you should use for general purpose programming. Without further adieu…

This is the first part of my series taking a look at some of the lesser known features of the C# language. Today we will be looking at index parameters, specifically how to use params with them, and how they are used in C#. With these articles, your millage may vary in terms of usability of these features for day to day programming, so think of this series as raising awareness that these things exist, not that you should use for general purpose programming. Without further adieu…