Software

An Introduction to XUnit, Moq and AutoFixture

When it comes to unit testing .NET applications, there are various frameworks, test runners and libraries available. Teams often undergo meticulous efforts to write the right testing strategy for their applications. We in the Odyssey Team, here at…

I’m a Database Developer, this is what I think about data

You are sitting at your screen reading a blog about the death of monolithic databases:

“Monolithic databases are so 80s, inflexible, they are an obstacle to change. Referential integrity stops us…

Foreign keys — don’t go there.

You’re probably a medium-to-large-sized company, you run a medium-to-large application. You apply all the industry best practices, using micro-/plain-old-service architecture, compartmentalise your system into nice tidy chunks. As they usually do, your DB admin doesn’t like…

I want you to give up programming

We’re programmers, you and I. We are time-served, battle-hardened veterans. We have honed our objects, learned our digital ropes, intoned the Laws of Liskov and Uncle Bob, and we’re now pretty good at what we do.

How to manage change and build antifragile software

What the ELK!? — Log Aggregation

Everyone loves logs right?

No…

Logs are long, complex, full of useless information, and it takes ages for you to find that one error message that you need to fix a problem. So if you’re working with over 100 servers and…