Its been a while since I felt passionate about some technology that was beyond a drive in the industry, determined by current need. That need, being fulfilled by a proven and established technology. The MVC’s, SQL’s and C-Sharp’s of the world that, usually, ended up in an implementation with a...
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Unit Testing and Coding Best Practices for Unit Tests - A Test-Driven Perspective
Unit testing is an essential instrument in the toolbox of any serious software developer. However, it can sometimes be quite difficult to write a good unit test for a particular piece of code. Having difficulty testing their own or someone else’s code, developers often think that their struggles are caused...
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A collective list of public JSON APIs for use in web development
A collective list of JSON APIs for use in web development.
Source: toddmotto/public-apis: A collective list of public JSON APIs for use in web development.
Unusual Ways of Boosting Up App Performance. Lambdas and LINQs
Lambda expressions are a very powerful .NET feature that can significantly simplify your code in particular cases. Unfortunately, convenience has its price. Wrong usage of lambdas can significantly impact app performance. Let’s look at what exactly can go wrong.The trick is in how lambdas work. To implement a lambda (which...
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Vault by HashiCorp
Vault can store your existing secrets, or it can dynamically generate new secrets to control access to third-party resources or provide time-limited credentials for your infrastructure. All data that Vault stores is encrypted. Any dynamically-generated secrets are associated with leases, and Vault will automatically revoke these secrets after the lease...
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