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Previous issues of The .NET Weekly
Building a Better MediatR Publisher With Channels (and why you shouldn't)
February 22, 2025
Discover why MediatR's notification publishers block your application, and explore a Channel-based solution before reaching for a message queue.
Understanding Cursor Pagination and Why It's So Fast (Deep Dive)
February 15, 2025
While offset pagination is widely used, cursor-based pagination offers significant performance advantages - my tests show a 17x speedup when paginatin...
Stop Conflating CQRS and MediatR
February 08, 2025
The .NET ecosystem has gradually fused CQRS and MediatR together, creating a reflexive assumption that they're inseparable, but this mental shortcut h...
Overriding Default HTTP Resilience Handlers in .NET
February 01, 2025
While .NET 8's standard resilience handlers provide excellent defaults for HTTP clients, they lack built-in support for overriding these handlers for ...
Implementing AES Encryption With C#
January 25, 2025
Learn how to implement secure AES encryption in C# to protect sensitive application data like API keys and passwords, with practical code examples cov...
Scaling Monoliths: A Practical Guide for Growing Systems
January 18, 2025
A well-designed monolith can scale remarkably well, despite industry trends pushing toward microservices. From database sharding to message queues, le...
Working with LLMs in .NET using Microsoft.Extensions.AI
January 11, 2025
Microsoft.Extensions.AI provides a unified interface for integrating LLMs into .NET applications, allowing developers to switch between providers like...
Unit Testing Clean Architecture Use Cases
January 04, 2025
Drawing from years of experience, I share my battle-tested approach to unit testing Clean Architecture use cases in .NET, focusing on the critical bal...
What Rewriting a 40-Year-Old Project Taught Me About Software Development
December 28, 2024
When tasked with modernizing a 40-year-old manufacturing system written in APL, I faced both technical complexity and organizational challenges that s...
Scheduling Background Jobs With Quartz in .NET (advanced concepts)
December 21, 2024
Quartz.NET is a powerful job scheduling library, but integrating it properly with ASP.NET Core requires careful consideration. Here's what I learned a...
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