Comparing Techniques for Effective Redis Data Management — In today’s article we will look at the most common way of storing data in the Redis cache, its drawbacks and ways to solve them. One of the most common uses of the Redis instance is to cache data loaded from a database or other source. public class Model {…

With pros and cons. — In this article, we’ll look at 3 different options that developers can use to implement auditing functionality for domain entities (CreatedAt, ModifiedAt properties/columns) in their applications using Entity Framework Core. This functionality is widely used in .NET …

Start asking these questions before publishing a message to a service bus. — In this article, we are going to look at few important considerations for architects and developers who are designing and implementing event-driven microservices systems. Each consideration can either simplify your design, make the architecture more extensible and help you avoid unpleasant bugs. Should my Message be a Command or an Event?

Interesting use cases for middleware that can simplify your architecture. — Middleware is one of the fundamental components of ASP.NET Core applications that can be used to implement various functionality. For example, middleware can be used to implement authorization, convert exceptions to responses, measure request execution time, decompress requests, compress responses, and more. But in addition to these common scenarios, there…

One simple approach to assess software developer skills. — Over the years, I’ve been doing technical interviews as an interviewer to see if a candidate is the right fit for the projects I’m working on. Assessing the technical level of candidates is not an easy task, especially given that the companies I’ve worked with usually allocate a maximum of…

Applying an Inversion of Control Principle at the Architectural Level in Microservices. — In this article, we will look at the classic trade-off between tight coupling and redundancy using the example of custom NuGet packages that developers often create in microservice multi-repository projects. Tight Coupling between Packages During the development of a microservices project, developers can create many custom NuGet packages with the aim of code reuse…

What makes a senior software developer valuable and indispensable on a project? — Strong senior developers mastering programming languages, patterns and frameworks or even quoting Donald Knuth, Martin Fowler and other gurus. But this is not enough. A valuable software developer should be able to reactively or proactively solve problems that a business is facing or would face. …

Making a balanced choice between transient, scoped and singleton lifetimes. — When developing ASP.NET Core applications, it’s quite common exercise to register yet another application service in IoC container. Developers have three lifetimes at their disposal: transient, scoped, and singleton. There are few important considerations for choosing the right lifetime for services, which we’ll look at next.

With C# examples. — Code that a developer writes will be reused by that developer sometimes later or by other developers. Code reuse is something that is used regularly — new functionality is developed on top of existing reusable components. When you introduce new code, you have a great opportunity to try to make…