WeekNote 2024 W08
Summary
A mundane enough expired Client Secret (yes, “nul points” for our ops routines), but to see how the intermediate API got it’s credentials required opening up the project. No time in the schedule right now to just start replacing it, but managed to squeeze out a couple of days to put together a single vertical slice from on endpoint all the way through to a dev instance of Dynamics, with authentication via Azure AD at both ends and a reasonable sprinkling of unit and integration tests. Just running locally so far, so no CI or deployment bits touched yet, but those are a fairly known art, my goal was to see how much easier (or not) it would be to put something together in ASP.Net Core v8 and using modern dependencies like AutoMapper. The other lesson I’ve learned from last time is bring the team along with me, so they don’t have to bounce issues to me… Doug Belshaw continues to document his progress with an MSc in Systems Thinking. Stepper relates the challenges when trying to encourage new graduates in a company training programme to share visibly their work.