Native AOT in .NET: Smaller Containers Without the Magic
Native AOT can reduce startup time and memory usage for focused .NET services, but only when the application and its dependencies are compatible with ahead-of-time compilation.
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HTTP Resilience in .NET (Part 3): Connection Pooling & HttpClient Lifetime
Socket exhaustion and stale DNS are the two classic HttpClient bugs. Learn the right lifetime strategy — long-lived clients with PooledConnectionLifetime, or IHttpClientFactory — and how to combine both.
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HTTP Resilience in .NET (Part 2): Hedging & Custom Pipelines
When sequential retries are too slow, hedging races requests in parallel to cut tail latency. Learn the Standard Hedging Handler and how to build your own resilience pipeline with AddResilienceHandler.
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Unlock HTTP Resilience in .NET: (Part 1) Retries, Timeouts & Circuit Breakers
Stop hand-rolling retry loops. Learn how the Standard Resilience Handler in Microsoft.Extensions.Http.Resilience gives your HttpClient production-grade retries, timeouts, and circuit breakers with one line of code.
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Repository Pattern in .NET: When It Pays Rent (and When It Doesn't)
An honest take on the Repository pattern in .NET 10. When to use it with EF Core, with Dapper, and what Microsoft Learn actually recommends — with practical C# examples.
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Async, Await, and Task in C#: unlock
Learn why async matters in .NET, how async/await and Task work, and when to use Task.WhenAll, Task.Run, cancellation, and non-blocking patterns in C# applications.
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Unlock Non-Destructive Mutation: Stop Mutating Shared Domain Objects
Why mutating shared domain objects causes surprising bugs and how to implement non-destructive calculation patterns in .NET (with examples and best practices aligned to Microsoft Learn).
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Getting Started with Entity Framework Extensions in 5 Minutes
Discover Entity Framework Extensions and learn how to dramatically improve your EF Core performance with bulk operations. Replace SaveChanges with BulkSaveChanges and achieve up to 50x faster inserts, updates, and deletes.
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Unlock Authentication in .NET: JWT, Bearer Tokens & Identity Server
Master JWT tokens, Bearer authentication, and Identity Server in .NET 10. A quick 5-minute guide with flow diagrams and practical C# implementation examples.
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Unlock GZip Compression: Speed Up Your APIs
Learn how to implement response compression in ASP.NET Core APIs using GZip and Brotli. Understand when to use it, how to configure it properly, and how to exclude OpenAPI/Scalar endpoints.
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