Toolchain

This is a list of services, software, packages and images that I have experience with. It’s still a work in progress, and the list is by no means complete.

AWS

• Lambdas - Serverless scaley woo-woo from Amazon
• DynamoDb - Partitioned, hyper scale structured document store
• Sqs - Amazon queuing service
• Kinesis - Amazon streaming service

Azure

• Function Apps - Serverless scaley woo-woo from Microsoft (With slot deployments)
• CosmosDb - Partitioned, hyper scale structured document store (With a real indexing system, and rich scripting support)
• Service Bus - Microsoft queuing service
• Event Hubs - Microsoft streaming service

General SaaS Platforms

• DataDog - Logging, reporting and monitoring.
• Octopus Deploy - Manage and ship releases to your environments.

Storage Providers

• Sql Server - The microsoft database.
• Postgres - Open source DB, has really good geospacial support and integration with GIS.
• MySql - Now owned by Oracle.
• ElasticSearch - Scaleable, indexed document store.
• CosmosDb
• DynamoDb

Queues and Streams

• Rabbit MQ - Queues and topic server.
• Service Bus
• Event Hubs
• Sqs
• Kinesis

Docker Images

• Postgres - Nifty databases.
• Seq - Local log sink with simple dashboard.

Dev Tools

• Visual Studio - My main IDE for .net.
• VS Code - The other IDE, that the main IDE doesn’t know about.
• NCrunch - Because tests while you type rocks.
• Specflow - BDD testing framework.
• Jekyll - Ruby based blog engine.

DotNet Packages

Testing

• XUnit - Runs unit tests.
• Moq - Create fakes, mocks and stubs.
• Fluent Assertions - Assert… fluently.
• Simmy - Chaos Behavior based off Polly, throw errors and add latency.

Resilience

• Polly - Configure retry policies.

Text Processing

• Sprache - Scannerless parsing library for turning text into objects.

Observability

• Serilog - Logging library with configurable sinks.
• Reactive Extensions - Composable, observable streams.

Time and Space

• NodaTime - Alternative Date/Time library. LocalTime, TimeZones, Instants, Durations and other useful primitives and calculations.
• NetTopologySuite - GIS mapping library.

Behaviour

• Stateless - Lightweight state machine.
• Workflow Core - Lightweight workflow engine.

Storage / Serialization

• Dapper - Ultra lightweight ORM from StackOverflow.
• DbUp - Database setup and migration tool.
• Newtonsoft.Json - An old classic, but not so relevant now it’s integrated into netcore.