Posted on Sunday, 3 August 2025
Testing distributed applications isn’t just about checking HTTP endpoints. It involves coordinating APIs, background workers, messaging systems, and databases. .NET Aspire provides a way to build and test cloud-native .NET applications as a unified experience.
ReadPosted on Saturday, 5 July 2025
When .NET Aspire came out in May 2024, I wasn’t sure what it was solving. But after digging in and trying it out, it clicked. In this post, I’ll walk through my experience integrating Aspire into a real-world event-driven microservice, regis-pay (https://github.com/reggieray/regis-pay) which is an example event driven microservice.
ReadPosted on Saturday, 20 July 2024
In my past I've built mobile apps for companies and my side projects using Xamarin.Forms, Android apps using Kotlin/Java, so I'm a bit familiar with the Android ecosystem. Although it has been a while since I had coded in this space and all my side project Android apps looks more like a grave yard of delisted applications due to neglect.
ReadPosted on Monday, 17 June 2024
Before I try and do a very poor job of explaining what a discriminated union is, I can point you to a documentation on it for F#. Discriminated Unions documentation and a quote taken from said documentation.
ReadPosted on Friday, 14 June 2024
Keyed services allow you to register multiple implementations of a service with a key and resolve the desired implementation at runtime based on that key. This enhances the flexibility and maintainability of your application.
ReadPosted on Sunday, 12 May 2024
MassTransit is a mature and feature-rich messaging framework that facilitates communication between distributed components using messaging patterns such as publish/subscribe, request/response, and message routing. Built on top of .NET, MassTransit abstracts away the complexities of message queuing systems like RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus, and Amazon SQS, enabling developers to focus on application logic rather than infrastructure concerns.
ReadPosted on Sunday, 28 April 2024
In this blog post I'll be exploring how to load test a event driven microservice. The code I use in this post can also be found in the Regis Pay github repository. I'll also be using this microservice example for running the load tests against.
ReadPosted on Friday, 26 April 2024
This is part of a multi part blog post where I go over an example event-driven microservice project, using a fictional payment processor named Regis Pay as an example. To see the previous blog post click this link on Event Sourcing.
ReadPosted on Monday, 22 April 2024
This is part of a multi part blog post where I go over an example event-driven microservice project, using a fictional payment processor named Regis Pay as an example. To see the previous blog post click this link on the transactional outbox pattern.
ReadPosted on Friday, 12 April 2024
This will be the start of a multi part blog post where I go over an example event-driven microservice project, using a fictional payment processor named Regis Pay as an example.
ReadPosted on Sunday, 17 March 2024
When building CLI tools it can feel like there is a lot of ceremony in creating command line argument parsers and setting up your project just to get to the stage where you start coding your feature/business logic. This is where Spectre.Console.Cli comes in. It's a very opinionated library for paring command line arguments and structuring your project using established industry conventions.
ReadPosted on Saturday, 17 February 2024
In the realm of PowerShell scripting, ensuring that your scripts function as expected is crucial. With the introduction of Pester, a testing framework for PowerShell, developers can automate the testing process, ensuring code reliability and reducing the likelihood of bugs in their scripts. In this guide, we'll explore the basics of Pester and demonstrate its usage through a practical example.
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