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Problem Statement A recent blog post of mine showed a significant performance difference between an async API method and a synchronous one. The performance test was generating 100 new requests each second for 30 seconds, making a total of 3,000 requests. The async code behaved much better under this load, but at what …
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Summary Using tuples with Dapper for simple query results can avoid the need to create classes or records that might otherwise bloat your code-base. Here's a sample repo: https://github.com/dahlsailrunner/tuple-with-dapper Background When you have an existing database or management practices that don't involve Entity …
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Background I was recently trying to get LaunchDarkly to write its logs using our standard logging configuration - which is Serilog on top of Microsoft.Extensions.Logging. According to the LaunchDarkly docs, this was pretty straight-forward but it turned out to be trickier than I thought. The solution involved getting …
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Background If you're working with Kubernetes at all, you may be needing to interact with more than one cluster - maybe different clusters for development and production, maybe different applications, or whatever. Each cluster probably has a kubeconfig file that you can use to interact with that cluster, but changing …
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Background Using JWT bearer token authentication for your ASP.NET Core API projects is pretty standard stuff these days, and I've done it many times - mostly with tokens from Duende IdentityServer. When I tried to update the code and configuration to use Auth0 though, I kept getting a 401 response after authenticating …
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Background In 2015 (6 years ago now!), I created my blog on GoDaddy using their "Managed WordPress" service. I also created a domain with them and added an SSL certificate. I'm a developer/architect and don't do anything with WordPress during my day job. I write a lot of markdown docs for README files and …
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