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- What we talk about when we talk about 'root cause'
- The case for using Rust in MLOps
- Using code as documentation to save time and share context
- Publishing your work increases your luck
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Pest-Driven Development: Learning, Iterating and Project Planning
Write a more complicated test later. Or refactor the test later. When you're in the moment, you want a test that works. Avoid hard coded values in completed tests, but use them when you're making sure your test doesn't break the very time you write it. A failing test is the starting point of the last decision you made, not the final product. Even if the imaginary people who are going to make fun of your code and call you stupid (ignore this if you're not relating, but if you are read this or watch it) are looking at your public github repo, they're not going to your test suites first. That would be insane. So you can be clunky at first.
- Formatters, linters, and compilers: Oh my
- Two years into this career and already frustrated and burnt out (rant)
- Treat accessibility issues as bugs, not feature requests ยท GitHub
dapr
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.NET Aspire is the best way to experiment with Dapr during local development
Dapr provides a set of building blocks that abstract concepts commonly used in distributed systems. This includes secured synchronous and asynchronous communication between services, caching, workflows, resiliency, secret management and much more. Not having to implement these features yourself eliminates boilerplate, reduce complexity and allows you to focus on developing your business features.
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Join the Diagrid Catalyst AWS Hackathon!
Diagrid Catalyst is a Developer API platform providing a brand-new approach to distributed application development. Using the Catalyst APIs, powered by the Dapr open source project, developers can overcome the complexity of rewriting common software patterns and achieve higher productivity by offloading infrastructure concerns from their code to Catalyst.
- Dapr: Microservices API
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Interesting projects using WebAssembly
The following two examples are open-source projects maintained by Fermyon with contributions from companies like Microsoft and SUSE. The first is Spin, which allows us to use WebAssembly to create Serverless applications. The second, SpinKube, combines some of the topics I'm most excited about these days: WebAssembly and Kubernetes Operators :) The official website says, "By running applications in the Wasm abstraction layer, SpinKube offers developers a more powerful, efficient, and scalable way to optimize application delivery on Kubernetes." By the way, this post shows how to integrate SpinKube with Dapr, another technology I'm very interested in, and I should write some posts soon.
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The Ambassador Pattern
Speaking of this has anyone had much experience with Dapr (https://dapr.io/) before?
I always thought this was a particularly interesting approach from Microsoft where they use this pattern to essentially take the complexity of micro services and instead try and keep it as simple as a normal .NET application but (and I think this is the clever part) in both a vendor and language neutral way.
But all of a sudden it means you can start removing all kinds of cruft and random SDKs from your codebase and push almost all of your interactions with the outside world into something like this .
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Comparing Azure Functions vs Dapr on Azure Container Apps
Azure Container Apps hosting of Azure Functions is a way to host Azure Functions directly in Container Apps - additionally to App Service with and without containers. This offering also adds some Container Apps built-in capabilities like the Dapr microservices framework which would allow for mixing microservices workloads on the same environment with Functions.
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Episode 150: myNewsWrap โ SAP and Microsoft
Having containers is nice but everything (well ... nearly everything ๐) gets better with Dapr as an outstanding tool for app development in the container-based area. Here we go what might be worth a look:
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Using DARP in production?
Anyone using or planing to use darp Distributed application platform runtime as a microservices platform? https://dapr.io/
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Ensuring Seamless Operations: Troubleshooting and Resolving Dapr Certificate Expiry
A CNCF project, the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) provides APIs that simplify microservice connectivity. Whether your communication pattern is service to service invocation or pub/sub messaging, Dapr helps you write resilient and secured microservices. Essentially, it provides a new way to build microservices by using the reusable blocks implemented as sidecars.
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Understanding the Dapr workflow engine and workflow patterns in .NET (1hr webinar)
Dapr is a runtime that implements common patterns such as pub/sub, state storage, etc. It runs as a sidecar to your app. Your app then interfaces with it using an sdk or http calls to use said patterns instead of implementing those patterns directly yourself. Seems pretty cool to me, but you can find out more at https://dapr.io/.
What are some alternatives?
viewi - Unique and efficient front-end framework for PHP
MassTransit - Distributed Application Framework for .NET
azure-dev - A developer CLI that reduces the time it takes for you to get started on Azure. The Azure Developer CLI (azd) provides a set of developer-friendly commands that map to key stages in your workflow - code, build, deploy, monitor, repeat.
camel-k - Apache Camel K is a lightweight integration platform, born on Kubernetes, with serverless superpowers
virtualcoffee.io - Public site for Virtual Coffee
tye - Tye is a tool that makes developing, testing, and deploying microservices and distributed applications easier. Project Tye includes a local orchestrator to make developing microservices easier and the ability to deploy microservices to Kubernetes with minimal configuration.
azfunc-openapi-on-root - This provides sample codes to show Swagger UI on root (/), instead of /api/swagger/ui
OpenFaaS - OpenFaaS - Serverless Functions Made Simple
AzurePolicyTestFramework - A command line tool to test Azure Policy relying on Terraform + Golang
Nomad - Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
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NServiceBus - Build, version, and monitor better microservices with the most powerful service platform for .NET