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I’ve been spending the last few weeks learning Go by reading Learning Go by Jon Bodner, so far I’ve been enjoying learning about Go, though there is still one thing I keep tripping over, in Go, you can return one or more values, for me Go is the first language that I have worked with that does that, in every other language I had to introduce a custom discriminating union to achieve what Go does natively....

Most developers are familiar with the modulo opertor, it is often presented in an example that determines if a number is odd or even as shown in the code below taken from Testing whether a value is odd or even. function isEven(n) { return n % 2 == 0; } function isOdd(n) { return Math.abs(n % 2) == 1; } Determining if a number is odd or even is just one use case for the modulo operator....

Introduction I have been spending my last few weeks sharpening up my Kubernetes skills, one area that I focused on was how to enable and use a Service Mesh in Kubernetes. A service mesh is a layer in your infrastructure that enables control of inbound and outboard traffic. It controls the traffic of any app or service that uses the network. Kubernetes offers a wide range of Service Meshes, in this blog post I am going to concentrate on HashiCorp’s service mesh offering, Consul, though you may see other refer to it as Consul Connect, Consul Connect is a set of features that were added to Consul was in 2018 to enable service mesh support....

Introduction I am working on a project that requires the usage of rules engines to enforce business rules, I am unsure if I should roll out my own custom implementation, probably a bad idea, or if I should use an existing project. To help me make a decision I will need to look at the current options for rules engines available in .NET, I need to understand their capabilities and limitations....

.NET has the ability to auto-generated OpenAPI specifications based on your code. You can use different decorators on your code like ProducesResponseTypeAttribute or ConsumesAttribute to produce more descriptive response details for web API help pages generated by tools like Swagger. What if you didn’t want to use the autogenerated spec, what if you instead wanted to expose an already written spec, perhaps because you follow an API-first approach to building an API instead of a Code-First approach....