Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) is an agile approach to delivering software. It promotes communication and collaboration between software development teams and stakeholders. To create a shared understanding of business requirements and behaviours of the application. BDD uses human-readable specifications of business requirements to guide development and produce living documentation. This…

Applying a rate limit for requests prevents your API from being overloaded by constraining the number of requests within a given time frame. This blog will cover how you can configure and test rate limiting using Kong API Gateway. What is Rate Limiting? Rate limiting is a strategy for limiting…

Simulating API latency during local development allows you to write code that will deal with it gracefully. This blog will cover how you can simulate API latency using a simulation tool — Hoverfly. What is API latency? API latency is the total amount of time taken by an API system…

This blog is a guide on how to use a CancellationToken in a .NET Core Web API, using the default template example of the weather forecast. Happy path scenario To demonstrate this we will use the weather forecast endpoint, it returns details such as temperatures, the data is randomly generated…

Podcasts, Podcasts, Podcasts… Welcome to my December blog post on my top three technology podcasts. During the pandemic with extra time of my hands due to not having to commute to the office I decided to go out for a walk before work. …

Welcome to my November blog post, what’s new? Microsoft have recently released .NET 6 Candidate 2. This post will focus on minimal APIs using .NET 6 within Visual Studio 2022 Preview. .NET 6 has taken simplicity to a whole new level, goodbye boilerplate. What are Minimal APIs? The clue is…