What are Optionals? Optionals have been introduced in Java 8. This concept is borrowed from other languages. Primarily from languages of functional nature like Haskell, F# etc. Optional is a container object which may or may not contain a non-null value. Why using it? Let’s have a look at this example where we want to get…

To Long To Read There is a big advantage of running integration tests with a straightforward setup. It hels you finding bugs earlier in the process and it gives you insurance that code works as expected. Follow my guide below to run your integration test for Azure Function and Cosmos DB. More Integration test —…

Too Long to Read The cleanest way of writing integration tests is using throwaway containers. TestContainers library helps you to easily manage it. More… Managing dependencies for automated tests can be challenging. We could spend hours and manage it manually, or we could automate it and use third party libraries to manage it. In this…

As a lazy software engineer I want to write code only when necessary. If I happen to write code I want to utilise it as much as possible. If this sounds like you, then let’s look at how Integration tests can allow your code to be more efficient. — Too Long To Read Write both, Integration and Unit tests, when you have enough time or it’s a critical piece of your system. Write Integration tests first when time is off the essence.

.NET 6.0 includes new structure of Program.cs . I would like to document how I added OData support via the command line. Here are the steps I followed: 1. Create ASP.NET Core Web API 6.0 application >> dotnet new webapi -o odata >> cd odata 2. Add Entity Framework Core and OData package references I used EF Core In-Memory Database Provider for simplicity. >> dotnet add package…

I’m a software engineer and a Team Lead. I participate in the hiring process of other engineers in the company. Over the last year I helped hire 15 software engineers and conducted around 45 interviews. One of the biggest challenges is to pick a well-structured resume. Only 3 out of…

Fixing typos is boring. If I do it — I want it to be as fast as possible. — I want to discuss a JSON format that could be helpful in reducing this problem. Introduction If you use Angular in your project you probably have used ngx-translate library to manage your translations. This library uses JSON files to translate strings for Angular components. English translation strings would be normally located…

This article is for people who apply for Junior Developer role with no or little experience I have worked as a software engineer for about 9 years. As a Team Lead in my department I help hire other software engineers. I conducted about 45 interviews for the last year. 19…

My department went through a transition from 5 to 25 software engineers. Number of teams grew as more and more developers joined the company. This brought many challenges, including building consistent REST API across different teams. …