At Madgex, we are currently building out v6 of our world-leading job board software. With v6, we are breaking the monolith and applying a microservices architecture. This architecture supports rapid growth of our platform, the introduction of new features, and the adoption of the latest technologies such as .NET Core 3.1, Vue.JS and GraphQL. This […]
Credential Loading and the AWS SDK for .NET (Deep Dive)
In this post, I want to dive into how the AWS SDK for .NET attempts to load credentials for any service clients which you use in your applications. I’m going to focus specifically on .NET Core applications, where the SDK client(s) are resolved from the dependency injection (DI) container. However, the steps are relatively consistent, […]
Do We Have an Obsession with Ducks in Software Development?
Excuse the slightly unusual blog post, but we are living in quite unusual times as I write this. I thought this post might be a mood lightener for a few of my regular readers! With that, let’s explore whether we have an obsession with ducks in software development. There are two phrases which came to […]
Creating a ReadOnlySequence from Array Data
WARNING: This blog post is informational and relevant to those with an inquisitive mind but should be considered experimental. The code presented here is not suited to most real-world situations, not thoroughly tested and is just for fun! In this post, I will demonstrate how to create a ReadOnlySequence from some existing data held in […]
How are .NET APIs Designed?
In this post, I want to cover something which I find extremely interesting. How are .NET APIs Designed? Sounds exciting… right? Perhaps you’re thinking no, it’s not and you are planning to hit that back button. Hold fire for one second to think about the challenge from the perspective of the .NET team. You’re designing […]