2023 Articles

Imagine this: You’ve just landed an interview for your dream software engineering job. You’re confident, well-prepared, and ready to shine. But did you know that simple mistakes might hold you back from that dream role? After conducting over 300 interviews with .NET developers & DevOps engineers, I want to share three tips to improve your chances of impressing an interviewer.

We’ll explore the importance of conciseness, the impact of preparation, and the necessity of clarity. By the end, you’ll have actionable advice and exercises to help you stand out in your next interview.

The Factory Design pattern is a popular technique for creating objects in .NET applications. It allows developers to create objects without specifying the exact class of object that will be created, making it an excellent option for improving code flexibility and maintainability. This article will explore the concept behind the Factory Design pattern, its benefits, and how it can be implemented in C# code.

The Decorator design pattern is a widely-used technique for extending the functionality of an existing object or component. By wrapping an object in a series of decorators, you can add new behaviours, features, or properties without modifying the underlying code. This makes it a powerful and flexible way to customize and extend software systems. In .NET, the Decorator design pattern can be used in various ways to enhance and modify existing classes and components, which can help you write more maintainable, extensible, and flexible code.

As a .NET developer, you understand the importance of writing efficient, scalable, and maintainable code. One design pattern that can help achieve these goals is the Singleton pattern. The Singleton pattern is a creational pattern that ensures only one instance of a class is created and provides global access to that instance throughout the application. In this blog post, we’ll look in-depth at the Singleton pattern, exploring its benefits, use cases, and implementation in C#. By the end of this post, you’ll have a solid understanding of how to leverage the Singleton pattern to optimize your .NET applications.

Welcome to the 12th edition of Observed! The newsletter delivers a tip you can implement across many categories like AWS, Terraform and General DevOps practices in your infrastructure. This week’s edition looks how we can use Precommit with existing docker images.

Welcome to the 11th edition of Observed! The newsletter delivers a tip you can implement across many categories like AWS, Terraform and General DevOps practices in your infrastructure. This week’s edition looks at AWS Cost Savings.

Every company seems to be cutting costs in one way or another. Let’s look at different ways you can visualize and reduce costs.

Welcome to the 10th edition of Observed! Your weekly newsletter, where I bring you a tip you can implement in your infrastructure across many categories like AWS, Terraform and General DevOps practices. This week’s edition looks at the practice of Chaos Engineering.

As a .NET developer, you’re probably familiar with the importance of design patterns for creating maintainable and flexible code. The Builder pattern is one of the most potent creational patterns in the .NET ecosystem. In this blog post, we’ll dive deep into the Builder design pattern, explaining what it is, what problems it solves, how to implement it in C#, and answering frequently asked questions.

Welcome to the 9th edition of Observed! Your weekly newsletter, where I bring you a tip you can implement in your infrastructure across many categories like AWS, Terraform and General DevOps practices. This week’s edition examines the differences between SLIs, SLOs and SLAs.

Welcome to the 8th edition of Observed! Your weekly newsletter, where I bring you a tip you can implement in your infrastructure across many categories like AWS, Terraform and General DevOps practices. This week’s edition looks at the differences between continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment.

Welcome to the seventh edition of Observed! Your weekly newsletter, where I bring you a tip you can implement in your infrastructure across many categories like AWS, Terraform and General DevOps practices. This week’s edition looks at the Well-Architected framework.

Welcome to the fifth edition of Observed! Your weekly newsletter, where I bring you a tip you can implement in your infrastructure across many categories like AWS, Terraform and General DevOps practices. This week’s edition looks at MACH architectures.

Welcome to the fourth edition of Observed! Your weekly newsletter, where I bring you a tip you can implement in your infrastructure across many categories like AWS, Terraform and General DevOps practices. This week’s edition looks at a common pattern emerging across the industry: Centralised Ingress.

Welcome to the third edition of Observed! Your weekly newsletter, where I bring you a tip you can implement in your infrastructure across many categories like AWS, Terraform and General DevOps practices. This week’s edition looks at Split Horizon DNS.

Welcome to the second edition of Observed! Your weekly newsletter, where I bring you a tip you can implement in your infrastructure across many categories like AWS, Terraform and General DevOps practices. This week’s edition looks at a technique you can use to upgrade your Terraform modules.