Azure
Function as a Service or FAAS we do love our abbreviations. FAAS is a set of functions that are short lived and single responsibility and have the ability to scale well. The big part of Functions as a service is they are part of serverless, this doesn't mean
Build
We have code now it's time to wire it into Visual Studio Team Services for builds and releases and even our tests and show how easy it is. We'll pull our code from Github, work with different triggers and get under the hood of Visual Studio
NUnit
We want to test the controller in an MVC application. We want to pass values in and be able to catch the response. The response from our controller will tell us if the test has passed or failed. If you build the application well then all these tests should pass
NUnit
Using NUnit tests is about testing different aspects of your application. So that as you make changes and add features you don't break anything. But it can be hard to get started with unit testing. Sometimes we are in too much of a rush to add testing to
Unit testing
Nunit is a unit testing framework for .NET, it was ported from a Java called JUnit. More About NUnit here. My earlier post about Testing and Unit testing About Unit Testing Getting Started with NUnit It's easy to add Nunit, just Create a new Class Library on your
Unit testing
As we move more and more into using continuous delivery we need to start getting better at building tests. Test Driven Development (TDD) was a trend and for a long time was the new hot, it's now been replaced by DevOps as the new trend but TDD is
Developer Desktop Build Having a good fast and powerful machine is important to every developer and if like me you enjoy building your own Computers then it's fun as well as important. The advantage of building a machine is that I can upgrade parts as I go along.
newsletters
I've been finding some really great developer newsletters so I decided to build a list. If there is anything that should be here or you think I should check out let me know @jamesmkenny The Changelog Link: https://changelog.com/ Topics Covered: A wide ranging and rambling (that&
AWS
What is Amazon Simple Queue Service Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) offers reliable and scalable hosted queues for storing messages as they travel between computers. By using Amazon SQS, you can move data between distributed components of your applications that perform different tasks without losing messages or requiring each
AWS
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a web service that helps you securely control access to AWS resources for your users. You use IAM to control who can use your AWS resources (authentication) and what resources they can use and in what ways (authorization). Before you can use any
Message-bus
This post assumes you have already setup an Azure Service Bus if you haven't see here We're going to create two Console applications in C# to read and write messages to the Azure Service bus. We will also need shared access keys setup on Azure service
Message-bus
What is Azure Service Bus messaging? Azure Service Bus messaging is an asynchronous messaging cloud platform that enables you to send data between decoupled systems. Azure Service bus is developed and provided by Microsoft. Azure Service bus is hosted on Azure. There are different types of messaging built into Azure