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C# 11.0 new features: raw string literals

C# 11.0 new features: raw string literals

Ian Griffiths

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

How to design APIs for Accessibility

Matthew Adams

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

Correctly configuring ASP.NET Core MVC authentication when hosting in Azure Container Apps

Jonathan George

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

My first year as an apprentice software engineer at endjin

Jessica Hill

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

Lazy and once-only C# async initialization

Ian Griffiths

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

Bye bye Azure Functions, Hello Azure Container Apps: Conclusions

Jonathan George

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

The OpenChain specification explained

Charlotte Gayton

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?

What are the risks with open-source software?

Charlotte Gayton

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

What is OpenChain?

Charlotte Gayton

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

An Overview of the Corvus.Retry Library

Liam Mooney

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

How to sign your git commits

Charlotte Gayton

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

An Overview of the Corvus.Globbing Library

Liam Mooney

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

Retrospecting on my first year at endjin

Liam Mooney

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

In Defence of Squash Commits

Ian Griffiths

Encapsulation is a powerful tool. Squash commits provide a way to encapsulate Git commit history.
An Overview of the Corvus.Extensions Library

An Overview of the Corvus.Extensions Library

Jessica Hill

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

Adventures in Dapr: Episode 4 - Containerising with Visual Studio

James Dawson

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

Bye bye Azure Functions, Hello Azure Container Apps: Migration of the existing test environment

Jonathan George

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

Big Data LDN: highlights and how to survive your first data conference

Elisenda Gascon

Here are some of the highlights form this year's Big Data LDN conference.
High Performance UriTemplate resolution with low-allocation C#

High Performance UriTemplate resolution with low-allocation C#

Matthew Adams

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

Customizing Lake Databases in Azure Synapse Analytics

Ed Freeman

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

How to create a semantic model using Synapse Analytics Database Templates

Barry Smart

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

My first year as an Apprentice Engineer

Elisenda Gascon

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

Bye bye Azure Functions, Hello Azure Container Apps: Authentication and CORS issues

Jonathan George

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?

What is a Lake Database in Azure Synapse Analytics?

Ed Freeman

Explore Lake Databases in Azure Synapse Analytics: analyze Dataverse data, share Spark tables, and design models with Database Templates.
EVALUATEANDLOG in DAX

EVALUATEANDLOG in DAX

Jessica Hill

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