In modern DevOps culture, the goal is to get features as fast as possible into production. Additionally, we have to guarantee that these new features don’t break anything. To do that, I will show i...
Build .NET Core in a CI Pipeline in Azure DevOps
A crucial feature of DevOps is to give the developer fast feedback if their code changes work. This can be done by automatically building code and running tests every time changes are checked-in. T...
Azure Static Web App with Blazor
Last week at Ignite Microsoft announced that the preview of Azure Static Web App now also supports Blazor WebAssembly. In this post, I will show how to create a Blazor client-side (WebAssembly) app...
Run Tests inside Docker during CI
Running your build inside a Docker container has many advantages like platform independence and better testability for developers. These containers also bring more complexity though. In my last pos...
Create a Docker Image in an Azure DevOps CI Pipeline
In my last post, I showed how to build a .NET Core Microservice inside a Docker container. Today, I want to build this microservice in an Azure DevOps CI pipeline and push the image to Docker Hub. ...
Add Docker to an ASP .NET Core Microservice
Microservices need to be deployed often and fast. To achieve this, they often run inside a Docker container. In this post, I will show how easy it is to add Docker support to a project using Visual...
Create a .NET Core CI Pipeline in Azure DevOps
A crucial feature of DevOps is to give the developer fast feedback if their code changes work. This can be done by automatically building code and running tests every time changes are checked-in. T...
Create a .NET Core Visual Studio Template
Over the last couple of weeks, I created several microservices with the same project structure. Setting up a new solution was quite repetitive, time-consuming, and no to be honest no fun. Since my ...
Creating a Microservice with .NET Core 3.1
Using a microservice architecture is a topic that is present at every conference for quite some time already. In my work as a consultant, I often have to train development teams about the basics of...
Scrum in 2020
A couple of years ago, I wrote a series of posts about Scrum. Several years of experience later and due to the rise of containers and microservices I want to revisit my approach to Scrum in 2020 in...