Putting my learnings into practice — I have been reading the Clean Architecture book by Uncle Bob. I thought I would check I understood everything correctly by creating a mini project using clean architecture principles. This is how I got on. What is clean architecture? Here is a diagram showing how clean architecture works:

I am trying to understand all the YAML code we have in our solution for deploying to Kubernetes. I’ve got three hours today, here’s what I learnt. What is a Kubernetes object? A Kubernetes object represents how you would like your cluster to behave in Kubernetes — it describes which applications are running, the resources…

I started to watch the Kubernetes for the Absolute Beginners — Hands-on course in Udemy. Here are the main take-aways from the “overview” part of the course in simple terms. What is a container? Containers provide a way to package and deliver applications so that they can be run very quickly with no set…

This post explores at a simple level the theory behind the mediator design pattern and examples of when it is used in practice. What is a design pattern? Design patterns are general and reusable solutions used to solve software problems. They are templates for solving problems which can be used in lots of different cases. What is the mediator design pattern? …

Recently my colleague suggested that I have a look into Entity Framework for .NET. I’ve got no experience of it whatsoever and don’t really know much about databases either. Here’s what I learnt in two hours… Introduction What is a relational database? A relational database is a store of data in a table with columns and…

I am new to Angular but have heard about web components and how they can be used for creating UIs across different projects. It all sounded really interesting so I wanted to learn a bit more about it and give it a try myself. …