Sponsor: Using RabbitMQ or Azure Service Bus in your .NET systems? Well, you could just use their SDKs and roll your own serialization, routing, outbox, retries, and telemetry. I mean, seriously, how hard could it be?
Here are the things that caught my eye this week in .NET. I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week. Let me know in the comments or on Twitter.
Nancy 2.0.0
Pretty sure everyone has been using Nancy 2.0.0-clinteastwood in production for the past 2 years but regardless, official 2.0 release.
Link: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Nancy/
BuildXL
Build Accelerator, BuildXL for short, is a build engine originally developed for large internal teams at Microsoft, and owned by the Tools for Software Engineers team, part of the Microsoft One Engineering System internal engineering group. Internally at Microsoft, BuildXL runs 30,000+ builds per day on monorepo codebases up to a half-terabyte in size with a half-million process executions per build, using distribution to thousands of datacenter machines and petabytes of source code, package, and build output caching. Thousands of developers use BuildXL on their desktops for faster builds even on mega-sized codebases.
Link: https://github.com/Microsoft/BuildXL
Efficient Params and String Formatting
This combination of features will increase the efficiency of formatting
stringvalues and passing ofparamsstyle arguments.
Link:https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/master/proposals/format.md
Rider 2019.1
Link https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/whatsnew/#v2019-1
5 Lessons Learned From Writing Over 300,000 Lines of Infrastructure Code
This talk is a concise masterclass on how to write infrastructure code. I’ll share key lessons from the “Infrastructure Cookbook” we developed at Gruntwork while creating and maintaining a library of over 300,000 lines of infrastructure code that’s used in production by hundreds of companies. Come and hear our war stories, laugh about all the mistakes we’ve made along the way, and learn what Terraform, Packer, Docker, and Go look like in the wild. Topics include how to design infrastructure APIs, automated tests for infrastructure code, patterns for reuse and composition, patterns for zero-downtime deployments, refactoring, namespacing, versioning, CI / CD for infrastructure code, and more.