nance.io

My name is Jared Nance, I am an engineer for CloudWatch at Amazon Web Services in Seattle and previously Stackify in Kansas City. I enjoy building things and sharing what I learn along the way. You can follow me on Twitter or GitHub . Opinions are my own. I often explore technology vastly different from what I use at work and have no plans to blog about my work at AWS (at this time).

A Better Story for Asp.Net Core Integration Testing

tl;dr I’ve built a library to improve the ergonomics and performance of your ASP.Net Core integration tests. It allows you to write simple…

Leveling Up Your .Net Testing Patterns - Part II Transactional Integration Testing

In part 1 of this blog post, I introduced a few testing patterns. Specifically I showed how you can use factories to generate fake data…

Leveling Up Your .Net Testing Patterns - Part I

This is a two part blog post in which I will provide guidelines, opinions and tools that you can use to improve your .Net testing experience…

A Strategy for the Measurement and Optimization of .NET Application Performance

This is a cross-post from stackify.com Introduction It’s Friday afternoon, the majority of the development staff has already packed up and…

A Guide to Logging in Azure Functions

This is a cross-post from stackify.com If you are thinking about using Azure Functions, at some point you will be confronted with the…

.Net Core Dependency Injection

This is a cross-post from stackify.com What is Dependency Injection? Dependency Injection (DI) is a pattern that can help developers…

TypeScript vs JavaScript

This is a cross-post from stackify.com TypeScript (TS) and JavaScript are two widely known languages in the development world, but what are…

Long Running Tasks In .Net Core With Hangfire

Follow along on Github Why? Typically, when we think of an ideal RESTful service, it’s one that does very simple CRUD tasks. However…