k6 is an open source load testing tool offering a first-class developer experience. This post looks at how you can dockerize your k6 scripts and run them from the cloud on AWS ECS.

We commonly use C# Enumeration types to represent a set of named constants within our applications. Often the values for such properties comes from the user via an API request but unfortunately the default model-binding and validation behavior in ASP.NET Core does provide the desired API experience. This post looks at how we handle binding and validating enum values in our APIs as well as supporting snake_case variants of the enum member names.

Serilog is a structured logging library for Microsoft .NET and has become the preferred logging library for .NET at Checkout.com.. It supports a variety of logging destinations, referred to as Sinks, from standard console and files based sinks to logging services such as Datadog. This guide started off as an article in our engineering handbook and after receiving positive feedback internally, I decided to release it on my blog. Read more

Endpoint routing was first introduced in ASP.NET Core 2.2 with the goal of making routing a cross-cutting concern, decoupling it from the MVC framework. This post explains how to resolve the current route name in ASP.NET Core 3.1.

This post explains how to use overload of the IUrlHelper interface to customise aspects of generated route URLs such as host, port and path.