Preferred Tech Stack

APIs:

• .NET Core 3.1 (C#);
• AWS Lambda;
• Serverless framework.
  • See more;
• AWS API Gateway;
• Hackney Lambda authoriser (for authentication).
  • [See more](../API-Practices and tools/lambda_authoriser);
• FxCop for static code analysis.
  • See more;
• dotnet-format for linting.
  • [See more](../API-Practices and tools/linting);
• AWS Canaries for availability monitoring.
  • See more;

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;
  • [See more](../../API Documentation/swagger_documentation.md);
• CircleCI for CI/CD.
  • See more;
• 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).
  • See more;
• AWS Parameter Store for secrets (connection string and similar);