ASP.NET Weekly - Issue #68

Seq is an application that allows you to search your application’s logs and that allows you to easily track down bugs. Alex looks at how you can deploy Seq to AWS and configure Serilog to send logs to Seq.

Hamin talks about one of my pet peeves - using the repository pattern with an ORM like EF. He lists some of the reasons for using a repository pattern, discusses whether those are valid when using an ORM and also offers alternatives.

Jest and Puppeteer are two libraries use for testing JavaScript and web applications. Daniel looks at how you can use these technologies for testing Blazor applications.

Bryan Hogan looks at how you can use Polly to cache HTTP requests using the new HttpClientFactory integration it offers.

Azure Functions is Microsoft’s Serverless offering. Robert and Wojciech talks about a real-world scenario where they implemented a billing workflow using Azure Functions.

I’m guessing that most of you spend a bit of time each day on GitHub. Here are some useful Chrome extensions that will make your experience better.

Today, we are releasing the November 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup. This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements.

It seems like twice a week or more I read there is an industry shortage of devs, but I never hear about any companies, of any size, looking for junior devs – or generally competent devs that might have a specific knowledge gap – to hire and give on-the-job training to.

So, .NET Core, the Great New Framework. I’ve been playing with it for a while now, and it works fine. I like the api designs and the new ways to configure stuff. That said, at my office it seems unlikely that we’ll start using it anytime soon. We’ve been building on .

So, as a programmer, how do you quantify or estimate how good you are?

You can’t wait to start. The first 10% is awesome. 10-40% is complex and the difficulty ramps up. 40-100%, all you can think about is starting over on something else. At around 80%, you just quit and actually do start over.