Richard Clayton
Stumbling my way through the great wastelands of enterprise software development.
Writing Better Apps: Dependency Injection
Dependency Injection (DI) is a pattern where the "things" a component (function, class) depend on are passed into the component instead of the component trying to instantiate (or resolve it) itself. This practice tends to make code a lot more robust by reducing a component's scope. The DI pattern also simplifies the testing . . .
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Writing Better Apps: Implementing Configuration
"Configuration" is the settings your application uses to change its behavior at runtime. Configuration might include simple values that adjust timeouts on requests to more complicated settings that swap out database or cloud service providers.
The process of collecting and validating configuration is critical to a stable . . .
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