MusicBrainz is a service which searches for music artists based on given artist name. It will return the releases associated with that artist if there is only one search result. It will return a list of artists if more that one search result is returned.

This is the format of the API Response in swagger https://app.swaggerhub.com/apis/ceola/artist-releases/1.0.0

Requires .NET Core 3.1 to run.

$ cd MusicBrainz
$ dotnet run

Hit the following endpoint through your browser, Fiddler or Postman to verify

https://localhost:5002/ArtistReleases/Search?ArtistName=Madonna

• Chose .Net Core as made an assumption that this should be extensible. Azure Automation or a Lambda may have been sufficient depending on the use case.
• Added paging as assumed use case would care about time it takes to return and returned results could be very large and difficult to consume in their entirety.
• Used the available client library so that I didn't waste time shaving the Yak .
• Ran into an issue that there was a bug with the required endpoint in the client library so for the purposes of this code challenge, I went with another similar endpoint but in real life would have probably updated the client library myself as it is being kept fairly up to date with the MusicBrainz endpoints.

• Should be extensible which was a big assumption because I didn’t know the use case.
• Assumed calling would care about time it takes to return and not need all records at once.

• Confirm use case.
• Improved paging (e.g. Hal) to improve usability for the calling code.
• Ignore empty collection in response using serialisation.
• Use Releases instead of ReleaseGroups by using API directly or updating client library.