Yes you can! develop on AWS using .NET

About a year ago I've started working with a client that had his several ASP.NET websites running in AWS, at the time it seemed like a wrong decision - when we think about ".NET" and "Cloud" Amazon's web services (AWS) does not sound like the first choice - in fact one of the ideas we … Continue reading Yes you can! develop on AWS using .NET →

ConFoo Montreal – Here I come!

A few years ago I had to pleasure to speak at ConFoo Montreal and it was fun. This is why I'm excited to have the chance to come to Montreal once again. This time I'm not going to talk about unit testing, instead I have the following sessions: Developing multi-platform microservices using .NET core - … Continue reading ConFoo Montreal – Here I come! →

Good news! we have .NET Core 2.0 Lambdas

As a .NET developer writing microservices and Lambda functions in AWS I found it increasingly frustrating that I could not upgrade my code to .NET Core 2.0. All because of the lack of support on Amazon side. In the past I had libraries which needed to be used by both my services and the Lambdas … Continue reading Good news! we have .NET Core 2.0 Lambdas →

When would we get .NET Core 2.0 AWS Lambdas?

The short answer is... Soon? During AWS re:invent I've hoped to finally hear about .NET Core 2.0 Lambda functions, and I did, but it was not what I expected. You can see the good people of Amazon are hard at work, there's a demo of .NET Core 2.0 towards the 13min mark. Hopefully soon we'll … Continue reading When would we get .NET Core 2.0 AWS Lambdas? →

Exciting news from AWS re:invent

I didn't go to re:invent this year but it does not mean I cannot stay in sync with AWS latest and greatest - and today there were quite a lot of cool and amazing services and capabilities coming out either soon or already out there for developer to use and harness. Obviously there are a … Continue reading Exciting news from AWS re:invent →

Assert.AreEqual in MSTest – done right

Every unit testing framework out there comes with a plethora of assertion methods - this is not necessarily a good thing. Instead of writing simple code a developer is forced to choose the correct assertion method from a seemingly endless list of methods, most of which look exactly the same! Having multiple overloaded methods with … Continue reading Assert.AreEqual in MSTest – done right →

Develop (and test) a dockerized, PostgreSQL backed, ASP.NET Core microservice in less than an hour

These days a .NET developer can create, test and deploy powerful software without breaking sweat. Writing a scalable, easily deployable performant ASP.NET Core microservice is easier than ever. The cool thing about using Docker is run automated tests against that soon-to-be-written service in an environment that was quickly created and immediately disposed once the testing … Continue reading Develop (and test) a dockerized, PostgreSQL backed, ASP.NET Core microservice in less than an hour →