Latest posts On résumé-driven development, FOMO and dismissing it 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 Categories: career Tags: smalltalk Beware of records, with expressions and calculated properties 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 Categories: csharp dotnet Tags: records [Video] Outbox meets change data capture - hooking into the Write-Ahead Log (feat. .NET, PostgreSQL & Kafka) 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 Categories: csharp dotnet Tags: outbox change data capture postgresql kafka video [Video] What's the point of async/await in an ASP.NET Core application? 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 Categories: csharp dotnet Tags: aspnetcore video [Video] Quick shout-out to DevToys Wanted to very briefly share a tool I’ve come across a couple of months ago: DevToys. May 3, 2022 Categories: dotnet devtools Tags: video [Video] Polymorphic JSON Serialization (feat. .NET & System.Text.Json) Time for one more video on messing with System.Text.Json, this time to get polymorphic (de)serialization going. April 13, 2022 Categories: csharp dotnet Tags: serialization json video OpenAPI extensions and Swashbuckle 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 Categories: csharp dotnet apis Tags: openapi swashbuckle Array or object JSON deserialization (feat. .NET & System.Text.Json) 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 Categories: csharp dotnet Tags: json [Video] Outbox meets change data capture (feat. .NET, PostgreSQL, Kafka and Debezium) 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 Categories: csharp dotnet Tags: outbox change data capture postgresql kafka debezium video Getting a complex type as a simple type from the query string in a ASP.NET Core API controller 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 Categories: csharp dotnet Tags: dotnet aspnetcore More posts...
On résumé-driven development, FOMO and dismissing it 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 Categories: career Tags: smalltalk
Beware of records, with expressions and calculated properties 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 Categories: csharp dotnet Tags: records
[Video] Outbox meets change data capture - hooking into the Write-Ahead Log (feat. .NET, PostgreSQL & Kafka) 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 Categories: csharp dotnet Tags: outbox change data capture postgresql kafka video
[Video] What's the point of async/await in an ASP.NET Core application? 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 Categories: csharp dotnet Tags: aspnetcore video
[Video] Quick shout-out to DevToys Wanted to very briefly share a tool I’ve come across a couple of months ago: DevToys. May 3, 2022 Categories: dotnet devtools Tags: video
[Video] Polymorphic JSON Serialization (feat. .NET & System.Text.Json) Time for one more video on messing with System.Text.Json, this time to get polymorphic (de)serialization going. April 13, 2022 Categories: csharp dotnet Tags: serialization json video
OpenAPI extensions and Swashbuckle 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 Categories: csharp dotnet apis Tags: openapi swashbuckle
Array or object JSON deserialization (feat. .NET & System.Text.Json) 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 Categories: csharp dotnet Tags: json
[Video] Outbox meets change data capture (feat. .NET, PostgreSQL, Kafka and Debezium) 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 Categories: csharp dotnet Tags: outbox change data capture postgresql kafka debezium video
Getting a complex type as a simple type from the query string in a ASP.NET Core API controller 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 Categories: csharp dotnet Tags: dotnet aspnetcore