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• Move from AWS CodeCommit to GitHub Enterprise

• Elections this year, what is at stake for developers

• Use DevContainers for Azure SQL databases

• Stop using Team Topologies?

• Kafka in .NET

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GitHub Digest

AWS recently announced they will discontinue some of their offerings like AWS CodeCommit. CodeCommit was a version control service in the cloud, offering Git hosting. There was support for Pull Requests, approvals, and connectivity to other AWS services like CodePipeline for workflows etc.

Although you can still use the service, it will stop getting new features and you cannot sign up anymore for new accounts.

An alternative is of course GitHub Enterprise, offering similar features and more. This next article describes what you need to do to move over.

A lot is happening around the world, and some changes in governments are to be expected with so many elections going on this year. Of course this has impact on the IT side of things as well; there is so much movement now with AI for example.

But there is more at hand, read the blog post to be informed.

Coding Corner

A devcontainer is a feature in GitHub to host a container in the cloud and access this with either your local Visual Studio Code or a webbased version. The container has some CPU, memory and storage and can be a Python host, .NET SDK, Ruby on Rails environment etc.

This allows you to get an isolated dev environment, ready for use, stored in a git folder. No need to do any local installs or run into conflicting versions.

Although there are already a lot of options available, Microsoft has made a dev container available for working with Azure SQL databases.

No need to install all kinds of tools, just start the dev container from the GH website and connect to your data.

When you use MSTest as your unit testing framework, you get some analysers with it. They will warn you about some common mistakes in your tests.

In version 3.5.1, there are some more added, like detecting that you forgot the TestClass attribute. There are some more, showing how beneficial it is to use analysers and turn them into warnings.

I like the book Team Topologies as it describes a number of patterns and tools to better align teams inside an organisation. As with all methodologies, every organisation is unique and requires its own take.

The next articles provides a more practical approach and tells what works, and does not work.

Azure Updates & Insights

Shameless plug for my other newsletter; Azure FinOps Essentials. I wrote a piece about the cost optimizations you can do when you consider your non-prod environment.

Maybe there is some money to gain…

.NET Nook

Kafka was for me always that tool from the other stack. When you used Java, Scala etc, you could only use Kafka. Of course, this makes no sense, as it is perfectly fine to use it with .NET as well.

The Wolverine framework is still on my lists of things to play with. It looks like it is capable of a lot of things, but still being simple about it. Full of conventions over configuration, and containing clever tricks, it allows you to build message driven systems.

Including Saga support, which does look surprisedly easy…

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