Valdis Pavlukevics

I created a secure API 😎. For authentication/authorization I used JWT (JSON Web Token, pronounced "jot" RFC 7519), but now I expect to have an easy way to test it  using a token 🤔. I have to check and be sure that my implementation rejects

Last year Microsoft announced a new tool Bicep. Bicep is open-source declarative language DSL (Domain Specific Language) by which you can provision Azure resources. GitHub - Azure/bicep: Bicep is a declarative language for describing and deploying Azure resourcesBicep is a declarative language for

To work with any programming language you need tools 🧰 to install before starting a journey 🧭 (compilers, code highlights, IntelliSense, etc.). Sometimes when we would like to experiment with a new programming language or new framework version that is in alfa or beta we do

The world has changed. I think everybody in 2020 😷 understood how important is to be information technology-friendly 🌐. Digital transformation for business is the key element to a successful business. If your business does not have API a lot of doors are closed to you.

Creating a project from scratch each time is a challenge and at the same time inspiration because you can try something new 🤩 (new libraries, new practices, etc.). At the project starting point, you have the inspiration to create a project better than the last

When you build a simple self-contained service and run it locally it feels so easy 🤩. But when you have to develop, debug, and test on your local machine many services that would be challenging 💭. First of all, you have to deal with unique ports

Writing Web API is fun, but how to deal with validation and global crashes on your API? What would be the response to API consumers? Do .NET Core already solved this task? In this post, I`ll try to answer all these questions. ❓

Imagine that you have REST API that calls external REST API. And you have to propagate requested HTTP headers to external API. 💡The simplest solution could be just read headers from Request.Headers and add it to following HttpRequestMessage external API request headers collection

In general, not all developers do REST API performance testing 🔥 they developed. In my opinion that is because they do not found a tool that is easy to use and easy to learn. Always I am saying "Do not write your own performance testing

Currently this feature is disabled and not working 😥! Have you ever had a situation when working in a server without a user interface and you need to copy some log files to the local machine. It is not an easy task, isn`t it?

I think you agree that diagrams are the best way how to describe processes, architecture. ✒️ But software developers are writers, not artists. 😉When someone asks us to draw a diagram to describe our solution, it`s not that task we will do with pleasure.

When you create distributed services you have to find tools and libraries which will help you collect and visualize steps your service produces. If you have only one service it is quite easy just write logs using .NET Core build-in logging. When you have

When you use a Windows machine it is not straight forward to install and configure kubectl tool. kubectl is command line tool for controlling Kubernetes clusters, Didn`t knew that Microsoft has introduced WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 10) feature for Windows

On 12th February in Europe, we have Junior Achievement day for school kids. It`s an amazing day when kids can work together with industry professionals one day in any profession. I participate from the industry side, this was the fourth time for me.

Last 2019 half-year I actively followed local Banks how they implement new European directive Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2). In short, this directive says to Banks in the EU to open their API to other players. And I was quite surprised when got information

Did you ever saw Windows desktop surface full with icons, temporary files? Looks quite messy, didn`t? And I find me confused when I need to find something there. I created one solution I will share. From now I use it for more than