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With Microsoft's fifth preview of Entity Framework Core 6.0 released last year, Compiled Models were introduced for the first time. Here we explore this feature in more detail and evaluate its benefits via our own investigation, which draws on a database from one of our existing projects.

We investigate the transformative potential of blockchain technology and look at some use cases across industries.

Infrastructure as code (IaC) is the managing and provisioning of infrastructure through code instead of manual processes. This article explores some of its benefits, use cases and how we are implementing this concept into our work at Audacia.

Melanie Hanson is an associate software tester at Audacia. Following a conversation about Mel's career journey, we give an insight into what a software tester's role entails on a weekly basis.

At Audacia, all code is reviewed by at least one other person before it goes through any other form of testing. It is the first quality gate at which potential issues can be raised and addressed. Here we discuss some of the best practices for code reviews.

In our latest Team Story, Melanie Hanson gives an insight to her role as a test engineer and the projects she has worked on since beginning her career at Audacia.

In part 1, Audacia's technical director Philip Rashleigh built, tested and published a model within Microsoft LUIS. Here he shows you how to consume this new RESTful API, as well as building a simple web application which can consume it.

In part one of this two-part series, Audacia’s Technical Director, Philip Rashleigh, gives an overview of how Microsoft LUIS can be used to create a natural language processing model.

Esme Lawrence, Software Engineer at Audacia, discusses her role, the types of projects she works on and what is her favourite part of working at Audacia.