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C# 11.0 new features: raw string literals
C# 11.0 adds various improvements to string literals. In this post, Ian explains how raw string literals can make your code more readable.

How to design APIs for Accessibility
Learn how accessibility-aware API design creates a great experience for all developers, not just those with accessibility needs.

Correctly configuring ASP.NET Core MVC authentication when hosting in Azure Container Apps
A short rundown of why you need the ForwardedHeadersMiddleware when using Azure Container Apps to host an ASP.NET Core MVC app requiring authentication

My first year as an apprentice software engineer at endjin
Jessica joined endjin as part of the Software Engineering Apprenticeship 2021 cohort. In this post, Jessica reflects on her first year.

Lazy and once-only C# async initialization
Performing lazy and/or just-once initialization is a simple optimization. But what if the initialization is async?

Bye bye Azure Functions, Hello Azure Container Apps: Conclusions
In the sixth and final post we draw our conclusions about migrating an application from Azure Functions to Azure Container Apps.

The OpenChain specification explained
When implementing OpenChain, understanding the specification will help guide your organisation to having processes in place to review and manage open-source software

What are the risks with open-source software?
The key risks associated with open-source software, from whether you use it minimally, to using it throughout all your systems.

What is OpenChain?
With much of the modern world is built upon software, organisations need to understand and manage the legal and security risks associated with open-source software.

An Overview of the Corvus.Retry Library
Corvus.Retry is an open source repository that provides functionality for building policies and strategies for handling transient faults. This post provides a spotlight on the repository.

How to sign your git commits
Signing git commits proves that you are the author of the code you are pushing up to GitHub, and helps protect the integrity of your software supply chain.

An Overview of the Corvus.Globbing Library
Corvus.Globbing is an .NET open source library that provides high performance, zero allocation functionality for working with globs.

Retrospecting on my first year at endjin
Liam joined endjin as part of the Software Engineering Apprenticeship 2021 cohort. In this post he looks back on his fist year and uses the post to introspect and look ahead to his second year.

In Defence of Squash Commits
Encapsulation is a powerful tool. Squash commits provide a way to encapsulate Git commit history.

An Overview of the Corvus.Extensions Library
Corvus.Extensions is an open source repository that provides a collection of useful helper extension methods to .NET types. This post provides a spotlight on the repository.

Adventures in Dapr: Episode 4 - Containerising with Visual Studio
Explore Dapr for cloud migration & simplify containerized dev inner-loop using Visual Studio with the Dapr Traffic Control sample application.

Bye bye Azure Functions, Hello Azure Container Apps: Migration of the existing test environment
The fifth in a series of posts talking about how and why we migrated an application from Azure Functions to Azure Container Apps

Big Data LDN: highlights and how to survive your first data conference
Here are some of the highlights form this year's Big Data LDN conference.

High Performance UriTemplate resolution with low-allocation C#
Learn how to use high-performance code constructs like ReadOnlySpan<T> to parse and create UriTemplates for C# developers.

Customizing Lake Databases in Azure Synapse Analytics
Explore Custom Objects in Lake Databases for user-friendly column names, calculated columns, and pre-defined queries in Azure Synapse Analytics.

How to create a semantic model using Synapse Analytics Database Templates
Explore Azure Synapse Analytics Database Templates and learn to create semantic models in this 2nd blog of the series.

My first year as an Apprentice Engineer
Eli joined endjin as part of the Software Engineering Apprenticeship 2021 cohort. In this post she reflects on her first year.

Bye bye Azure Functions, Hello Azure Container Apps: Authentication and CORS issues
The fourth post migrating an app from Azure Functions to Azure Container Apps we examine the challenges around authentication and CORS

What is a Lake Database in Azure Synapse Analytics?
Explore Lake Databases in Azure Synapse Analytics: analyze Dataverse data, share Spark tables, and design models with Database Templates.

EVALUATEANDLOG in DAX
This blog post explores an exciting, hidden new feature in DAX - the EVALUATEANDLOG function. EVALUATEANDLOG brings debugging capability to Power BI.