Development with a Dot

Introduction When using AWS  for development, sometimes it is useful to have some sort of emulator, so that we don't incur in costs while doing development and debugging. For that, we have local cloud emulators, and LocalStack used to be the standard one not too long ago; the problem is, its licence changed and it is now generally not free. The good news is that there are alternatives that are free, such as MiniStack (GitHub:  MiniStack ), a free and open-source AWS cloud emulator that can emulate more than 55 AWS services and that is very similar to LocalStack. On this post I'll be talking about how to set it up so that we can point to it and use it as if it were the real thing with .NET. We will be using Docker Compose to spin up the local environment. Docker Compose We want to use the latest MiniStack image, which is made available from https://hub.docker.com/r/ministackorg/ministack . Our docker-compose.yml file will look like this: services: ministack: image: m...

Introduction Some of you may remember - and hopefully have even tried! - my Isolator project . Isolator is a framework for running isolated code for .NET. What this means is that possibly unsafe code can be run in a secure, isolated, way. It offers some quite different isolation strategies: Process isolation : the code to execute runs in another process, possibly under a different identity (on Windows only) Assembly isolation : uses an assembly load context to isolate the code execution, which is then unloaded Distributed isolation : the code to execute is sent to possibly another server for execution Scanned : the code to execute is first checked for problematic code using my ReferencesScanner project Now, I added support for Docker isolation! What this means is, if you have Docker running on your machine, you can spawn an image that will just be used for running your code, and after that will be gone. This provides another very restricted level of isolation. For Docker A...