GitLab has built-in support for feature flags. Since I've become a big supporter of this approach, I was happy to see this. GitLab uses Unleash as a feature toggle service. It has a free, open-sourced client for many platforms and can be found on Nu...
I test my code with API calls all the time. Because of this, Rider HTTP Client is a lifesaver.Usually, I call some endpoint for a token and then try to get some data from the service. So let's try to use Rider for this case. First, we have to run the...
How long is your deployment process? Does it take days or weeks before your code is on production? From my experience, it's at least a few days, usually weeks, until the official deployment is over. I found such an approach wasteful. Why not commit s...
How often do you see an email represented as a string? Or a currency field being a decimal type? Did you ever consider that something is wrong with this approach? That's the usual manifestation of primitive obsession. It occurs when you use primitive...
I've seen many ways to deal with date and time. Hiding it behind an interface, a static class with a single property, ambient context, you name it. I never liked any of them. Then the enlightenment came. In one of the projects, I've seen a function u...
How do you start a new project? From my experience, most of the projects begin with a search for a verb. Not any verbs. The important ones! The question arises, how do you spot the important one? That depends on the domain, of course. As an example,...