Preferred Tech Stack

APIs

• .NET Core 3.1 (C#)
• AWS Lambda
• Serverless framework
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• AWS API Gateway
• Hackney Lambda authoriser (for authentication)
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• FxCop for static code analysis
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• dotnet-format for linting
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• AWS Canaries for availability monitoring
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Testing

• nUnit
• FluentAssertions
• Moq
• Bogus (Faker) for faking test data
• AutoFixture
• WebApplicationFactory (Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing)
  • For bootstrapping the application (API) in memory and run end-to-end tests
• Docker & docker-compose
  • For spinning up DB image containers and running tests against that database
  • During local development and during test run as part of CI/CD

For more guidance on testing, go to the testing section

Common

• Swagger documentation
  • For API design prior to implementation
  • Automated Swagger docs for each API endpoint deployed
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• CircleCI for CI/CD
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• GitHub for version control
  • HackIT Github
• AWS for cloud hosting
• AWS CloudWatch for monitoring
• Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (e.g. setting up AWS DMS)
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• AWS Parameter Store for secrets (connection string and similar)