TLDR; Use TeamCity detached builds and callbacks to provide a more seamless integration between TeamCity and AWS Services. Asynchronous External Service One of the challenges with invoking a process in AWS from TeamCity is that the call to AWS is usually asynchronous. An example of when you might want to do this is to make … Continue reading Using TeamCity Detached Builds to Invoke AWS Services
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TLDR; To help make your tests more reliable and prevent unexpected issues, organize Cypress tests around a single FQDN and don't switch between different target URLs during a test execution. Cypress Journey Recently I've been spending some time improving an existing test suite and writing tests in Cypress.io. Cypress is an excellent framework for developing … Continue reading Cypress.io baseUrl
TLDR; Re-install the latest hosting bundle; Recently I was upgrading the IIS ASP.NET Core Hosting Bundle to ensure the server had the latest patch release (3.1.8). Just to keep the server installations clean, I wanted to also remove all the previous versions of the core hosting bundle so that I only had the single required … Continue reading IIS ASP.NET Core Hosting Bundle 500.19 Error
Recently I was creating a new image using a dockerfile and encountered a very strange error during the build: ./my-script.sh: 1: ./my-script.sh: Syntax error: word unexpected The cause of this wasn't obvious and it took me a little bit to understand what was happening. It turned out to be a line ending compatibility issue between … Continue reading Linux Style Line Feeds in Docker Desktop on Windows
We used to rely solely on artifact dependencies and finish build triggers in TeamCity to coordinate build chains. This was simple and worked well, but as our builds grew in complexity, this approach began to break down. We started experiencing slow, brittle, and less reliable builds. It was also difficult to ensure that the same … Continue reading Team City: Leverage Snapshot Dependencies
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