For a while now, I’m trying to get the hang of Kubernetes. The hardest part was for me to get a good use case. During my job, not a lot of customer that use Kubernetes. So I started to explore Kubernetes by myself and I have found some helpful extensions…

I think we all can be honest and say that swagger is the most helpful tool when developing an API. Sometimes it’s a hassle to install it. Personally, I would like it to be included in the API template of Visual Studio. So #vs2019 if you are reading, add it…

Azure Data Factory brings ETL to a whole new level. With the great responsive GUI, you can build great ETL pipelines that are easily tested and debugged. While Azure Data Factory is a great service, there are some downfalls to think about. The lookup activity with a limit of 5000 records If you’re using ADF, short for Azure Data…

ARM templates are becoming a hot topic. Infrastructure as code (IaC) is becoming the standard when working in the cloud. The Azure team is already helping us a lot by providing a possibility to export existing recourses as ARM templates.

Short story about Dependency Injection With .NET Core, the Microsoft team added a build support for dependency injection. Prior to .NET Core, there wasn’t a built-in support. There where a lot of third-party libraries like Autofac that supported dependency injection. Why use Dependency Injection I’m not going to go very deep in the subject. There are a lot of…

What is the Result class? The Result class is a way to handle returning results to the presentation layer. I learned it from a great tutorial of Vladimir Khorikov on Pluralsight. The implementation is very simple and it cleans up a lot of dirty code. Why use it? Often I found myself inconsistently handling errors, null value’s etcetera…

Recently I successfully accomplished the Microsoft AZ-400: Microsoft DevOps Solutions exam. The exam was very helpfully, it gave me a quick overview of all the capabilities that are possible with Azure DevOps. During studying, I found a lot of resources that can help with preparing for the exam. I took…

Many times customers and friends ask me about developing an app. They all have the same question: “Is it hard to develop an app?” I always respond with: “No it isn’t hard at all”. I tell them that everybody could write an app these days and I try to show…