A collection of 345 posts
I’ve recently been working with Docker deployments to get my ASP.NET Core applications into the hands of more developers. The whole experience has been generally positive, and it is reminiscent of the early days of Git deployments. Write some code,...
As a developer advocate, part of my job as a developer advocate is to inspire others to work with .NET and JetBrains ReSharper and JetBrains Rider. Thus, to inspire others, I need to be inspired. So this search for creative...
Auth is the most critical part of the modern application stack. The abundance of data breaches signals that it is also challenging to get right. I find the idea of managing identities and secrets scary. I don’t want to be...
I recently worked with Swashbuckle, a .NET package that can generate Swagger 2.0 and OpenAPI 3.0 specifications from existing ASP.NET Core solutions. The benefit of the library is we can write HTTP APIs and get automatically generated documentation.
I’ve grown fond of SQLite during my time as a developer advocate. The file-based database with native drivers for every operating system allows me to ship self-contained data-driven sample apps to developers worldwide. Developers can clone a demo and run...
When building APIs that return a non-trivial amount of data, we need to make design decisions based on our underlying database. For example, a developer may implement a specific endpoint in APIs that allows clients to return a window-based collection....
If you’re anything like me, you set up your Entity Framework Core DbContext and your connectionString once in a blue moon and forget about it. Connection strings are essential parts of a functioning application, but we forget the nuance in...
Modern development has an abundance of processing power, network bandwidth, and disk space. Given our current fortunes, we should spend these resources like there’s no tomorrow, right? Well, no! We should be mindful of our resource utilization and how it...
Sometimes, in my research, I come across helpful and great tips to keep in mind but likely wouldn’t be enough to fill a whole post. Rather than let those discoveries fade into the ether, I thought I’d compile them into...
JSON is arguably one of the most used data formats on the planet, likely due to its flexibility and human readability. We can also recognize that its two greatest strengths can also be the format’s weakness. Being human-readable gives developers...
