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I enjoy writing unit tests and any tools that make writing tests easier are appreciated. For the last year, I have incorporated AutoFixture into all of my unit tests. I have found AutoFixture to be an excellent tool, it changed the way I approach the “Arrange” phase. Previously, my arrange phase involved manually assigning values to properties, in a small class that is referenced by a few tests, you may tolerate manually assigning values. Once you start to deal with a class that has many properties such as nested properties as shown on the “Employee” class below, things get out of hand. ...

In my last post, Kubernetes In WSL - Connect to a service from Windows, I explored a few ways to connect to a Kubernetes service from the host machine, Windows. In the end of that blog post, I stated that using HostPort was the best option because at the time I did not know how to assign a static IP address to WSL. Without using a static IP address, when WSL is restarted a new IP is assigned. Having a dynamic IP made it harder for me to connect to a Kubernetes service from Windows as I would need to update all my configurations whenever a new IP was assigned to WSL. ...

Today’s post is a follow-up to my Use Kubernetes In WSL blog post, where I outlined how to install Kubernetes on WSL. As noted at the end of the post, I was having issues connecting from the host, a windows machine, to Kubernetes in WSL. Connection Issue The main issue I was facing was that I could not connect to a pod running on Kubernetes using window’s localhost. Take the following Nginx deployment obtained from the official Kubernetes documentation. ...

If you are a fan of the strategy pattern, and you find yourself adding a lot of conditional logic around each strategy then you should consider replacing all branching logic using inversion of control. Take the following code as an example. It defines a strategy for reading different file types. For simplicity, the code writes out to the console a message, in a real-world application, the logic would be far more complex, but we are not interested in that logic, rather we are interested in how the strategy pattern works and how we can improve its usage. ...

A while back I made a blog post titled, Tools For The Modern Day Developer, in which I listed the tools I thought at the time every developer should be using. Today, I still stand by that list, but I would like to add an additional tool that lately has become super useful to me, that tool is Mockoon. Mockoon is a free and open-source mock API tool created by Guillaume in 2017. It offers Docker support, a CLI, importing and exporting of Mockoon environments, it works with OpenAPI 3.0 files. In many ways it feel like Postman, even the UI feels like the old classic Postman UI. ...