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CAP

CAP is a .NET library that implements the Outbox pattern. When working with distributed messaging systems like RabbitMQ or Kafka, we frequently face the challenge of ensuring that database updates and event publications are performed atomically. CAP addresses this challenge by recording the intent to publish the event in the same database transaction that caused the event. We find CAP to be quite useful as it supports several databases and messaging platforms while guaranteeing at-least-once delivery.

As a reminder, you can find more infos about the Outbox pattern in the following links:

• Microsoft learn
• blog

Mockoon

Mockoon is an open-source API mocking tool. It has an intuitive interface, customizable routes and dynamic responses as well as the ability to automate the creation of mock data sets. Mockoon is compatible with OpenAPI and lets you generate different scenarios that can be tested locally and integrated with a development pipeline. You can also create "partial mocks" by intercepting the requests and only faking the calls that are defined in Mockoon. The partial mocks help simulate specific API routes or endpoints and forward other requests to actual servers. While partial mocks can be useful in certain scenarios, there is a risk of overuse, which may lead to unnecessary complexity. Besides that, Mockoon remains a valuable tool for quickly setting up mock APIs as well as improving and automating development workflows.

DevBox

Despite advances in development tooling, maintaining consistent local development environments remains a challenge for many teams. Onboarding new engineers often entails running commands or custom scripts that can fail unpredictably across different machines and result in inconsistencies. To solve this challenge, our teams have increasingly relied on Devbox. Devbox is a command-line tool that provides an approachable interface for creating reproducible, per-project local development environments, leveraging the Nix package manager without using virtual machines or containers. It has notably streamlined their onboarding workflow because once it has been configured for a codebase, it takes one CLI command (devbox shell) to reproduce the defined environment on a new device. Devbox supports shell hooks, custom scripts and devcontainer.json generation for integration with VSCode.