Background In the past, software was often developed by one person or a very small team, and the same person / team would also test the software. If there was a problem with the software, you’d just contact the developer (maybe per fax) and the probl...
Background I love .NET Core. One of the nice features of .NET is the ability to configure the application using a “appsettings.json” file that contains default settings, and an “appsettings.<environment>.json” that contains settings for a specific en...
Back in June 2020, Microsoft released multi-stage pipelines. Up until then, we would use Builds and Releases to build and deploy the software, respectively. The classical Release pipeline had the ability to add pre- and post-deployment approvers to a...