Writing unit tests can be challenging, but there is one thing that can get you on the right track - the test name. If you manage to give your test a good name - you will write a good test. Unfortunately in some (read: many) unit testing frameworks the test name must be a valid … Continue reading Better tests names using JUnit’s display names generators
It has been three years (and a few month) since I've passed the AWS Solution Architect Associate exam and I was thinking about taking my knowledge (and certification) to the next level. And so last Thursday I've spent three and a half hours answering questions about everything AWS and passed the AWS Solution Architect Professional … Continue reading I’m an AWS Solution Architect – Professional
Today at work I've needed to create a quick solution to provide a client application with data stored in AWS. It has been a while since the last time I've used C# in AWS so I thought I'll give it a try, and after a few hours of tinkering I had a solution up and … Continue reading Creating an .NET AWS serverless application using API Gateway with API Key
Let me tell you about two developers who worked for the same company: Both were talented, gifted software developers and had many years of experience under their belt. Each one of them was the technical lead of his team. One day the first developer needed to convert all of the project's old HTTP calls with … Continue reading A tale of two developers
I love speaking on conferences! What's not to like? - you get to meet passionate developers, teach and speak about things you care about and travel to interesting places... At least until this year, things have changed a bit, no one is going to travel at least for a few more months but I'm happy … Continue reading Upcoming (online) conferences
Does this sounds familiar to you: You come to work early(ish) in the morning - ready to apply a new technology you've just learnt about - just to find out that you can't. Your frustration grows as you understand that in order to use this "new and shiny" some adjustments must be made and what … Continue reading Using C# anonymous types to assert complex results in your unit tests
Docker has revolutionized the way software is being written and deployed throughout our industry. With the use of it's lightweight containers you can deploy your whole environment locally - or in your clients machine quickly and easily. At Practical Software we've used Docker to test how multiple servers behaves when one of them crash and … Continue reading 5 commands to get you up and running with Docker
A while ago I've needed to count the number of events arriving from an external system and perform a specific task once a specific threshold has been reached. I've needed to count groups of events each group had it's own unique key. Although I might have been able to solve this problem using a dictionary … Continue reading How to count the number of event invocations using Rx
Two weeks ago I've attended a workshop in the AWS offices. It was about EKS (Managed Kubernetes in AWS) and it was excellent! There were a bunch of talented developers who came to learn and experience the latest and greatest with the aid of AWS architects but what really impressed me was the quality of … Continue reading Free online AWS Workshops
My latest course - AWS Developer: Lambda Deep Dive was published today! I've wanted to create a practical course on using FaaS (Functions as a Service) in the AWS cloud and I felt that on top of explaining about Lambda functions I should also cover how to build event driven applications using AWS services and … Continue reading New Pluralsight course – AWS Developer: Lambda Deep Dive
