For years, I've been using open api generator or NSwag to generate HTTP clients for my projects. While this work well, there were edge cases I felt were hard to satisfy. Recently I learned about Kiota to generate API clients, and it takes a…

Happy New Year! Happy New Year! I've been taking a break for a while from my blog. I had been spending some extra time outside of work trying to push forward an initiative inside work to move my workplace forward on containers. It's just…

It's getting close to November, and that means a new .NET release is about to be released. While there are a lot of features that deserve attention, there is one feature that is one of my favorites as it's going to reduce the amount of code…

When writing automated tests, one of the hardest parts of is when integration testing and external dependencies are required-- like a database or external service. While running these things may not be hard an and of itself, maintaining…

In my pursuit of refining software development methodologies, I have put a few artificial intelligence (AI) assistants to the test. Initial experiences, were met with mixed results. They just didn't work well for my personal coding flow…

Many branching strategies work to split up work into smaller pieces that are regularly integrated into a mainline branch. However, often time it is difficult to do this with much larger tasks. I want to highlight a common software…

Every year I try to pick up a few engineering books and read them. I decided to look through my bookshelf and compile a list of some of my favorites I've gone through in the past few years and record them in a blog post. Hopefully in a few…

In the past, I have written several posts about GIT on my blog. Specifically, I want to reflect on the lessons I have learned while trying to determine the appropriate branching strategy for various projects. Over the years, I have had to…

Most applications contain settings which differ from environment to environment, or just need to be able to have behavior changed without making changes to the code. Configuration allows applications to do this. Thankfully, Kubernetes…

Up to this point, we've covered the internal object structure of GIT and the basics of how branches work and how GIT internally tracks branches. I wanted to highlight merging specifically to show how commit objects change based on the…