microservices

Stubbing your way to automated end to end testing in an API first world

Building high quality end to end acceptance tests suites is hard, and creating API stubs (aka mock servers) can be surprisingly time consuming. WireMock.net can help speed this up. E2E testing is hard End to end testing is hard for many reasons, but I think one of the most common is that the developers under estimate how much time to allow for it and then rush the job. Most E2E test harnesess I have worked on, (including several I wrote myself!...

Sites worth reading for .net developers | Mar 2016

Some stuff I have read in the last couple of weeks that I think are worth checking out, mostly new but some old stuff too. All worth subscribing to. ASP.NET Core is approaching its full release and the polish is starting to shine. Using Kestral it passed node in some benchmark perf a while back, and now it’s getting silly. 1 million requests a second | ageofascent.com 3 top notch free videos from Thoughtworks and Martin Fowler, especially the last one on microservices....