Andrew Craven – Medium

Nov 26, 2021

Creating an AWS Lambda function with .NET 6

Using a custom runtime — Overview This is the first of three posts where I will walk you through my journey into the land of AWS Lambda. I will introduce a custom runtime I have created that allows you to deploy Lambda functions written using .NET …

Net 6

6 min read

Dec 8, 2020

A NuGet package workflow using GitHub Actions

Background I’ve had a few ideas for this year’s C# Advent, but this one feels the most relevant at this time. The client I’m currently working with, builds their NuGet packages on developers’ machines; it’s a practice that generally works and is not too labour intensive, but occasionally steps are missed…

Nuget

10 min read

Dec 23, 2019

Microservices and Outside-in Tests Using C# and Docker Compose

Is This For Me? I’m going to showcase how I prefer to structure my microservice repositories while I practice Outside-in TDD using C# and Docker Compose. I’ll show you how I create the skeleton repository with some initial tests. We will implement some temporary behaviour to satisfy the tests before replacing it with…

Docker

7 min read

Jul 16, 2019

Updating dependencies in Azure DevOps repos

Background One problem we have as developers, is keeping on top of our dependency housekeeping. How often have you seen a repo with packages that are months, perhaps years, out of date? And how many times have you tried to update one or more, only to rage-revert after hours of hair…

Azure

5 min read

Apr 26, 2019

Creating a Pull Request workflow in Azure DevOps

Background I’ve recently moved from a client with a very mature microservice architecture to one whom is just embarking on their microservice journey; mature vs green, AWS vs Azure. I had some ideas about how we should work, discussed them with the team and we set off to quickly make them…

Azure Devops

5 min read