In this post, Andrew Lock dives into exploring .NET 6 and discusses how to support integration tests with WebApplicationFactory. WebApplicationFactory and HostFactoryResolver class are two powerful to...

Learn how to solve the problem of validating actual time in your code when using DateTime.Now or DateTime.UtcNow. Author Stephen Walsh shares his solution using SimpleDateTimeProvider NuGet Package wh...

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This is a sample project showcasing the Monacs library. Monacs is a library that provides a monadic approach to handling errors and side effects in your code. With Monacs, you can easily and safely co...

This post discusses the problem of seeing 502 error responses from your applications when theyre being upgraded using a rolling-upgrade deployment in Kubernetes. After upgrading a chart, and confirmin...

This post is my annual contribution to the 2021 C# Advent Calendar. .NET 6 has officially arrived and there are a lot of good stuff, including C# 10, performance improvements, Hot Reload, and Minimal ...

Learn how to Implement the microservice application layer using the Web API in this article. The application layer can be implemented as part of the artifact (assembly) you are building, such as withi...

Learn how to use RabbitMQ, C#, REST-API, and Entity Framework to build an event-driven microservice architecture that supports asynchronous decoupled communication and eventual consistency with integr...

In this article, learn how to efficiently process data in a non-blocking way using the pipeline pattern. Compose and test pipelines using .NETs channels, and see how to cancel and handle errors. Imple...

Pipelines is a library for implementing programs as Pipeline objects in C#. This library is inspired by Arlo Belshees talk, Refactoring to Async. Pipelines are a mechanism of separating a function tha...

Ready to up your coding game? Object Calisthenics will help you create code that is cleaner, more flexible, more agile, and more reusable. Object Calisthenics were first introduced by Jeff Bay in The ...

Learn how to build a resilient architecture with RabbitMQ, C#, Entity Framework, and the Transactional Outbox Pattern. In this guide, you will create two microservices that use events to publish chang...

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A common trap in Domain-Driven Design is blindly applying patterns and complex layering with the hope of achieving clean code. However, no amount of prescriptive guidance results in automatically clea...

In this post, Joshua Steward builds on his previous work on background message processing in Dotnet 6 and introduces a new concept called MessageRouter. The post discusses how to route a single Intern...

Proto.Actor is a minimalistic API for ultra-fast, distributed, cross-platform actors. It is built on existing technologies and uses Protobuf for serialization. The API is small and easy to use, avoidi...

Learn how to implement an event-driven architecture using Apache Kafka as the event router. This article covers setting up the development environment and publishing messages to Kafka. Kafka is a hori...

In this article, the author discusses the implementation of an event consumer using Kafka for .NET developers with a specific focus on the Manager service. The article also covers the necessary NuGet ...

Graceterm is a middleware tool for AspNet Core that ensures graceful shutdown of the application. It was designed to achieve zero downtime while performing Kubernetes rolling updates. After receiving ...

In this post, Laurent Kempé explains how to invoke services using the Dapr .NET SDK. He compares two methods of invoking services - one using a simple .NET HttpClient and another using the Dapr .NET S...