Abstract from your CI. Use Cake!
Here at Coolblue, we can choose our tools from a range of technologies. A while ago, our team started moving from Microsoft MSTest to xUnit.
18
Oct
2017
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01
Oct
2017
NDepend, first impressions on a static code analyser
During my career, I learned on the hardest way how a poor codebase can be harmful to the business. I witness behaviours in teams such as:
10
Aug
2017
Build a .NET Core 2.0 Application in AppVeyor
AppVeyor is one of the Continuous Integration Services in the cloud, ready to use, with minimal configuration. It provides a Windows Server image with tooling to build, test and deploy ours .NET applications. Among the baseline software is .NET Core, however, the version is 1.0.4 (at the time of writing this post).
04
Feb
2017
Create and Push a Docker Image from an Octopus Deployment
Docker is one of the disruptive technologies within virtualization, allowing the different containers to run on the same machine, sharing resources, reducing the overhead. The technology allows DevOps teams to have another tool to develop, build and ship software. One use case for containers is the Microservices Architecture Pattern.
10
Jan
2017
Create an AWS Lambda function from an Octopus Deployment
AWS Lambda is one of the AWS Compute Services, alongside with Amazon EC2 or Amazon EC2 Container Service. In a nutshell, AWS Lambda is the serverless offer from AWS, allowing "you run code without provisioning or managing servers".
03
Jan
2017
Code development improvement with JetBrains UpSource (configuration and first impressions)
We should seek excellence in our jobs, doesn’t matter our line of work. As professionals, we should always aim to improve the quality of our outputs, either it is customer satisfaction, code quality or just faster builds and deployments.
21
Dec
2016
Running Docker SQL Server Linux container in Windows 10
Microsoft is doing a huge effort to bring SQL Server 2016 to Linux. Back in the summer, during the Dublin 2016 SQL Saturday 501, Mark Souza presented the SQL Server history. One of the major features is the ability to run SQL Sever 2016 on Linux.
06
Dec
2016
Changing the operations of a Software Company – Part II
In the previous post, I wrote about my experience changing the operations of a Software Company, improving the development process.
02
Dec
2016
Changing the operations of a Software Company – Part I
Agile is great… and sometimes painful. Do not get me wrong, I love an Agile work environment when everyone is keen to “Try, Fail, Fix, Learn and Move On”. For those ones that work in the software development space, we have more tasks than develop software.
12
Oct
2016
Integrate .NET Core, AppVeyor, OpenCover and Codecov
As a developer, I need to take a good rest at night. In my line of work the only way to achieve it is using an integrated workflow pipeline, aka Source Code Management (SCM), Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) with some tools in the middle.