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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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Creating a short video that addresses a single topic can be a very useful skill to have. I learned it (and still have more to learn) from both working on Pluralsight courses and creating short videos to help my teammates at RealPage. Beyond that, the following process can be applied to larger topics to create full …
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