Mastodon on your own domain without hosting a server
Like many in the past week, I have been having a serious look at Mastodon as an alternative to Twitter. Read more »
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Rate limiting in web applications - Concepts and approaches
Your web application is running fine, and your users are behaving as expected. Life is good! Read more »
ASP.NET Core rate limiting middleware in .NET 7
Rate limiting is a way to control the amount of traffic that a web application or API receives, by limiting the number of requests that can be made in a given period of time. This can help to improve the performance of the site or application, and to prevent it from becoming unresponsive. Read more »
How to test ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs
How do you test that your ASP.NET Core Minimal API behaves as expected? Do you need to deploy your application? Can you write tests with frameworks like xUnit, NUnit, or MSTest? Read more »
Techniques and tools to update your C# project - Migrating to nullable reference types - Part 4
Previously, we saw how you can help the compiler’s flow analysis understand your code, by annotating your code for nullability. Read more »
Annotating your C# code - Migrating to nullable reference types - Part 3
In the previous post, we looked at some internals of C# nullable reference types, and the nullable annotation context. Read more »
Internals of C# nullable reference types - Migrating to nullable reference types - Part 2
In the previous post, we saw that with nullable reference types enabled, you get better static flow analysis when working on your code. While nullable reference types don’t give you runtime safety, the design-time and compile-time help is priceless! Read more »
Nullable reference types in C# - Migrating to nullable reference types - Part 1
The C# nullability features introduced in C#8 help you minimize the likelihood of encountering that dreaded System.NullReferenceException. Nullability syntax and annotations give hints on whether a type can be nullable or not. Better static analysis is available to catch unhandled nulls while developing your code. W... Read more »
A journey towards SpeakerTravel - Building a service from scratch
For close to two years now, I’ve had SpeakerTravel up & running. It’s a tool that helps conference organizers to book flights for speakers. You invite speakers, they pick their flight of choice (within a budget the organizer can specify), and the organizer can then approve and book the flight with a single click. Read more »
Custom bindings with Azure Functions .NET Isolated Worker
If you’re building workloads on Azure Functions, there’s a good chance you’ve looked at building custom bindings. Custom bindings can greatly reduce the boilerplate code you have to write in an Azure Function, so you can focus on the logic in your function instead. Read more »