Andy Dote

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Earlier in my career I was working as a C# developer, and had read a lot about testing and testability from the Alt.Net crowd, a lose group of people with ideas outside of how Microsoft did things in C#. When I came to needing to write an API, the impossibility of testing in ASP.NET made me look elsewhere. ASP.NET…

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Tracing: Structured logging, but better

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It is no secret that I am not a fan of logs; I’ve baited (rapala in work lingo. Rapala is a Finnish brand of fishing lure, and used to mean baiting in this context) discussion in our work chat with things like: If you’re writing log statements, you’re doing it wrong. This is a pretty incendiary statement, and while…