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The boxes developers put themselves into is something I’ve given some thought over time. Probably not something folks think about much, but figured I’d write a post about it anyway.

January 19, 2023

I’ve had some of thoughts not exactly résumé-driven development, but more importantly, how engineers, can remain up to date and relevant in the job market, and a recent discussion on LinkedIn reminded me about it.

November 7, 2022

I’ve been using C# records a lot since the feature was introduced. However, when using them, we really need to understand how they work, otherwise we might face unexpected surprises.

September 1, 2022

Another video on using change data capture (often referred to as CDC), to hook up into the database transaction log, forwarding incoming entries to the outbox table.

July 27, 2022

I’ve been noticing in recent chats that folks have difficulty explaining why do we use async/await, tasks and related, when building ASP.NET Core applications.

May 30, 2022

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