C# and .NET, a fully managed development ecosystem? — TL; DR: I’m in love with C# and .NET because it is an opinionated development ecosystem that lets you focus on the purpose of the software you are building and the people it serves rather than on the technologies you have to use to build it. It is the exact…

Install the AWS CLI on Windows with the winget command This post is a quick one to reveal a hidden gem: you can install the AWS CLI on Windows! Just run the following command: winget install -e --id Amazon.AWSCLI That’s it, the latest version of the AWS CLI is install…

How to host our .NET applications on AWS — TL;DR: this post details the decision trees we use to decide how to host our .NET applications on AWS depending on the use case. Disclaimer I Love My Local Farmer is a fictional company inspired by customer interactions with AWS Solutions Architects and AWS Developer Advocates. Any stories told in this…

We want managed containers — We received a few questions after publishing that we’ve chosen Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate as our platform to run our containerized Spring MVC app. They were all about why we didn’t choose the obvious solution: Kubernetes (K8s). Indeed, AWS provides Amazon EKS, a managed K8s service. So why didn’t…

Breaking the monolith! — If you read my previous post about our first contact (👽) with .NET on AWS, you know that my team and I had more than mixed feelings about it. If you also have serious doubt on how AWS could support a .NET developer, I really encourage you to read it. …

AWS 🧡 .NET? — When Inès, our CTO, announced that the company has decided to migrate all-in on AWS, as a .NET developer, I was a bit concerned. My team and I are used to Visual Studio and we are just one click away from a much “bluer” cloud provider since several versions of…

While our feet are on-premises — In today’s episode This is the second article in a series explaining why I Love My Local Farmer has decided to embrace the cloud. In this post, Inès Abderrahmane, CTO of I Love My Local Farmer, explains the business rationale behind this decision and highlights the expected value from the cloud. She also…

While our feet are on-premises — In today’s episode This is the first article of a series explaining why I Love My Local Farmer has decided to embrace the cloud. Below, Inès Abderrahmane, CTO of I Love My Local Farmer, describes their on-premise footprint and why the engineering team decided to open a second data centre in 2017. To…

Days of the future past — In today’s episode This episode is the first of a series discussing the challenges facing our engineering organization. The series will detail how we adopted agile ways of working, in order to respond faster to business change. This episode focuses on the state of our engineering organization before the COVID-19 crisis and…