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Open-source software has become an essential part of many organisation's software supply chain, however, this poses challenges with license compliance and security assurance.

Performing certain deployment operations from a cloud-based CI/CD agent against resources that are only accessible via private networking are problematic. The often-cited solution is to use your own hosted agents that are also connected to the same private networks, however, this introduces additional costs and maintenance overhead. This post discusses an approach that combines the use of cloud-based CI/CD agents with 'just-in-time' allow-listing as an alternative to operating your own private agents.

C# 11.0 adds some new pattern matching features. In this post, Ian shows the new support for matching lists.

Learn about the thinking behind endjin's Power BI Maturity assessment by applying Wardley Doctrine, and asking more questions.

This is a summary of the sessions I attended at SQLbits 2023 in Newport Wales, which is Europe's largest expert led data conference.

This blog shows how to transform a document based format to a tabular format whilst managing all the nested properties

Learn to configure AAD or MSA 2FA profiles for UI automation testing with Time-based One-Time Passwords.

Why you should make writing unit tests a regular practice and how they will improve your code. This blog explains how to write unit tests in PowerShell using Pester.

C# 11.0 adds some new pattern matching features. In this post, Ian shows the new support for matching lists.

Implement Python data validation with Pandera & Great Expectations in this comparison of their features and use cases.

Explore using Python virtual environments & Poetry on Windows for smoother workflows, with a script & guide to enhance your dependency management experience.

Charlotte is studying for a Bachelor of Engineering - BEng (Hons), Computer Science at the University of York. She was part of our 2021 internship cohort, and is spending her Year in Industry placement with endjin too. In this post she reflects on her first 6 months.

C# 11.0 enhances string literals with new features. Discover how multiline interpolated strings boost readability in Ian's insightful post.

C# 11.0 adds various improvements to string literals. In this post, Ian explains how we can now create UTF-8 string literals.

This series will follow our ongoing journey of migrating the CI/CD pipelines for our many Open Source repositories, from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions.

Discover using GitHub Actions for auto-updates to Python packages on PyPI, assessing its role in Continuous Deployment.

Explore how we developed an accessible color palette for Power BI reports, considering color vision deficiency and data visualization.

Explore Dapr for cloud migration & use Visual Studio container tools to debug containerized services.

C# 11.0 adds various improvements to string literals. In this post, Ian explains how raw string literals can make your code more readable.

Learn how accessibility-aware API design creates a great experience for all developers, not just those with accessibility needs.

A short rundown of why you need the ForwardedHeadersMiddleware when using Azure Container Apps to host an ASP.NET Core MVC app requiring authentication

Jessica joined endjin as part of the Software Engineering Apprenticeship 2021 cohort. In this post, Jessica reflects on her first year.

Performing lazy and/or just-once initialization is a simple optimization. But what if the initialization is async?

In the sixth and final post we draw our conclusions about migrating an application from Azure Functions to Azure Container Apps.

When implementing OpenChain, understanding the specification will help guide your organisation to having processes in place to review and manage open-source software