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Wanted to very briefly share a tool I’ve come across a couple of months ago: DevToys.

May 3, 2022

Time for one more video on messing with System.Text.Json, this time to get polymorphic (de)serialization going.

April 13, 2022

Let’s take a quick look at OpenAPI extensions (which I discovered were a thing last week 😛) and how to add them to our API description using ASP.NET Core and Swashbuckle.

February 21, 2022

Ah, the joys of integrating with third-party APIs… We always end up having to hammer something to get things working 🤣. This is a post about one of such situations, resorting to some JSON deserialization trickery (via JsonConverter) to be able to get things working.

January 31, 2022

Quick video with an interesting approach to implement the publisher part of the outbox pattern. Using change data capture (often referred to as CDC), we hook up something to the database transaction log, forwarding incoming entries to the outbox table. In this example, we’ll make use of Debezium, hooked up into a PostgreSQL database, forwarding messages to Kafka.

January 17, 2022

This is a tale of a good amount of hours of wasted time, so I’m going to document it so I remember it in the future. The idea is simple: when building an API, how can we treat a complex type as a simple type, to avoid things like primitive obsession, implement strongly typed ids and other related patterns? Let’s find out! 🙂

January 3, 2022

Let’s take a look at something that’s been around for years, but maybe flew under the radar: NDepend, a static code analysis tool tailored for .NET.

December 6, 2021

Quick little video about an interesting new logging related feature coming in .NET 6, compile-time logging source generation, as well as related high-performance logging features, which were already present but probably not very well known.

November 21, 2021

Distributed tracing isn’t a new subject by any means, but there are some more recent developments, namely in terms of standards like W3C Trace Context and OpenTelemetry, that are worth a look.

October 26, 2021

The upcoming release of ASP.NET Core 6 brings a pretty interesting feature set referred to as “Minimal APIs”. While they seem pretty interesting to me and many others, some folks are not fans and can be quite vocal about it, so I thought about taking quick look, put things in perspective, as well as compare with other tech stacks.

August 17, 2021