Latest Blog Posts
Providing context to cancellations in Go 1.20 with the new context WithCause API
A new addition to the context package in Go 1.20 is the ability to provide the cause of a context's cancellation. In this post we'll take a look at this new API and how to use it.
Posted on Wednesday, 4th January 2023
Playing With Slog, the Proposed Structured Logging Package for the Go Standard Library
Currently going through Go's proposal process, the slog package aims to introduce structured logging as a first-class citizen within the Go standard library. In this post we take a look at the proposal, the package and what it does.
Posted on Thursday, 24th November 2022
Global Error Handling via Middleware with Go's Gin Framework
In this post we'll take a look at how we can utilise middleware to simplify error handling when using the popular Gin router for Go.
Posted on Wednesday, 1st June 2022
Automate testing of poor network conditions with Shopify's Toxiproxy in Go
You build things differently when you expect them to fail, and in a complex distributed system that communicates across networks failures should be expected. To combat this Shopify build Toxiproxy, a tool for simulating a wide range of network conditions. In this post we look at how we can leverage Toxiproxy to introduce network failures into our tests, so we can better defend against them.
Posted on Sunday, 5th December 2021
Integration testing your Polly policies with HttpClient Interception
Posted on Thursday, 30th July 2020
Effectively stubbing remote HTTP service dependencies with HttpClient Interception in C#
Posted on Thursday, 21st May 2020
Consider Chesterton's Fence Principle Before Changing That Code
Posted on Thursday, 2nd April 2020
A couple of nice Tuple use cases
Posted on Monday, 16th March 2020
Chaos Engineering your .NET applications using Simmy
Posted on Friday, 3rd January 2020
Managing your .NET Core SDK versions with the .NET Install SDK Global Tool
Posted on Tuesday, 3rd September 2019
Approval Testing your Open API/Swagger Documents
Posted on Wednesday, 28th August 2019
You can stop mocking ILogger
Posted on Saturday, 1st June 2019
Subcutaneous Testing in ASP.NET Core
Posted on Thursday, 14th March 2019
The myth of the right tool for the job
Posted on Friday, 18th January 2019
Skipping XUnit tests based on runtime conditions
Posted on Wednesday, 2nd January 2019
Aaaand, we're back...
Posted on Thursday, 8th March 2018
GlobalExceptionHandler.NET version 2 released
Posted on Friday, 8th December 2017
Going serverless with .NET Core, AWS Lambda and the Serverless framework
Posted on Wednesday, 8th November 2017
REST Client for VS Code, an elegant alternative to Postman
Posted on Wednesday, 18th October 2017
Global Exception Handling in ASP.NET Core Web API
Posted on Wednesday, 20th September 2017
