In my previous post I walked through the set up of a dotnet core project in Sonar Cloud, showing how, with a few settings in your csproj file and a couple of dotnet tools, you can create a code coverage Read more…
I’ve mentioned in a previous post how recent versions of C#8, along with some reputable code analysers have helped developers improve the quality of their code. One of those analysers is from Sonar, a well known code quality company offering Read more…
Lots has been written about using Swagger to provide a useful api documentation api and even more about versioning your web apis. Bringing the two together with as little code as possible is now a common ‘boilerplate’ requirement so I Read more…
Following on from my previous post on using Nullable reference types to aid validation with Web Apis where I mentioned the idea of forming model requirements early on in your design to allow developers to set which properties can be Read more…
Whilst we may look forward to the new ‘syntatical sugar’ we get with updates in the C# language versions, I think one of the most pertinent new features in C#8.0 is the option to enable nullable checks on your code. Read more…
When consulting for large firms, where the existence of copious amounts of test data is established, it makes it very easy to realise the potential of any prototype or greenfield work very quickly. Be the focus on UI or the Read more…
Using nuget packages to help facade the complexities of some resource dependency can no doubt speed up development, but often it can create a bit of a headache when it comes to unit testing. Anything that uses a lot of Read more…
In my previous post, we set up a Splunk Docker container and configured it to collect http posted events to its HEC and pushed an example log event through postman. However, in order for this to work, we had to Read more…
Ensuring you have logging enabled for your application has always been a high priority but even more so now, in the age of DevOps, that a comprehensive solution is in place to support any pro-active approach to managing issues in Read more…
In my previous post, I sert up a very simple Docker supported web api project using a Dockerfile to determine the set up and launch. To consider the maintainability of production-deployable scenario, we can look towards Docker Compose to organise Read more…