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Hi there 👋 - I'm Stu, it's a pleasure to e-meet you! I'm Stu, it's a pleasure to e-meet you! I'm a highly experienced software engineer & architect. Currently, I'm helping start ups grow utilizing .NET Core and high-quality, performant micro-services based on AWSs. Day to day, I split my work between looking after our developers experience through tooling automation and helping teams scale themselves and their software.

• 🌱 AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate & AWS Certified Developer Associate
• 📫 You can watch my YouTube videos all on things .NET/AWS, contact me on Twitter and read a few entries on my blog

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Here's some of my recent work

YouTube videos

• New .NET 7 Feature - Regex Source Generator #shorts
• Live: Serverless SaaS
• The fastest .NET Serializer is NOT what you think
• .NET 7 - Pattern Matching With Spans #shorts
• .NET 7 - PatchAsync & PatchAsJsonAsync #shorts

Recent Blog Posts

• 3 Ways To Increase App Reliability With Polly
  In this article, we’re going to take a look at the different ways that you can make your .NET applications more stable by using 3 different patterns: Retrying with decorrelated jitter, bulkheads and circuit breakers.
• Creating a private helm repository using Github Pages Enterprise
  In this article, we’re going to take a look at how to create a private Helm repository with Github Pages. This guide requires you to have a Github Enterprise license as private Github Pages are only available to enterprise customers. I’m showing this approach for the scenarios where setting up something like ChartMuseum isn’t possible or unwanted. Although this guide uses helm as the example, you can extend this to host anything under a privately authenticated Github page.
• Extending the AWS SDK for .Net
  In this article we’re taking a look at how to extend the AWS SDK for .NET, which can be useful for various tasks like adding in some custom observability components into the request pipeline. This article is a companion resource for the video linked above in case you prefer a written version. I’m actively using the approach described here to implement distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry for all AWS calls at work.
• Things you might not know about CSharp - Duck Typing
  This is the next part of my series taking a look at some of the lesser known features of the C# language. Today we will be looking at duck typing and how it is used in C#. Much like the previous article, your millage may vary in terms of actually using these features for day to day programming, so think of this series as raising awareness that these things exist, not that you should use for general purpose programming. Without further adieu…
• Things you might not know about CSharp - Using Params with Indexers
  This is the first part of my series taking a look at some of the lesser known features of the C# language. Today we will be looking at index parameters, specifically how to use params with them, and how they are used in C#. With these articles, your millage may vary in terms of usability of these features for day to day programming, so think of this series as raising awareness that these things exist, not that you should use for general purpose programming. Without further adieu…