[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 · 1 min · 136 words · João Antunes

[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 · 1 min · 93 words · João Antunes

[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 · 1 min · 106 words · João Antunes

[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 · 1 min · 68 words · João Antunes

[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 · 1 min · 89 words · João Antunes

[Video] High-performance and compile-time logging source generation in .NET 6

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 · 1 min · 72 words · João Antunes

[Video] Exploring distributed tracing with ASP NET Core 6

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 · 1 min · 108 words · João Antunes

[Video] Are ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs just for demos?

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 · 2 min · 251 words · João Antunes