A standardized library available to help developers in things like look-ups, persistence, security or messaging, has been a goal for platform creators since before even J2EE was first released. Today, we look at the latest incarnation of this goal. It’s called DAPR, and it’s made by Microsoft. Let’s go! Oh no, he didn’t Did he compare the latest hippest, fanciest, shiny technology to hit the market with the old-aged brontosaurus that is Java Enterprise? Read more

In the third part of the series, our adventure is slowly but surely heading to its climax. All ‘characters’ have been introduced. There’s DotNet Core, the new, misunderstood (or at least by me?) kid with a bunch of talent. Docker, the awesome supporting character that actually deserves his own movie. Surely there’ll be a spin-off! There’s the antagonist, Jenkins, who might end up working along with our main character more then either had hoped for. Read more

In my previous post on this topic, I somehow got the jitters to get started with .NET. Or more specifically, .NET core. Being stubborn as I am, I have created a simple delivery pipeline in Jenkins, for building and deploying a .NET core docker container. Now, this might sound like hell freezing over. Me, programming .NET? Blasphemy! Except one little thing. For my previous post, I didn’t actually write one line of C# code. Read more

At the closing of last year, I presented an in-house talk, comparing Continuous Delivery solutions for both Java and .NET. Of course, this was not a simple side-by-side comparison; a microsoft oriented colleague and myself created a small challenge for ourselves. My colleague was going to build Java software in Team Foundation Server. And me? I was stuck creating a delivery pipeline for Microsoft .NET in Jenkins. Now, I had been thinking about looking into . Read more