What We Lost When Everything Became an API
We made simple things complicated for no good reason..
Why ConfigureAwait(false) Doesn't Matter in ASP.NET Core
ASP.NET Core dropped SynchronizationContext. Here's what that means for your async code.
Why Dispose Still Matters in .NET
The Garbage Collector handles most memory in .NET, but not all of it.
Avoid Default Constructors in Domain Models
Design your classes so that if an object exists, it is in a consistent state.
ValueTask: When Task<T> Allocates More Than It Should
Every async method allocates a Task on the heap. Sometimes that's wasteful.
The Transactional Outbox Pattern
How to keep your database and message broker in sync without distributed transactions.
Object Pooling in ASP.NET Core
Reuse objects instead of creating new ones to reduce memory allocation overhead and GC pressure.
Why You Should Use IHttpClientFactory in .NET
Disposing HttpClient doesn't close the socket. Reusing it risks stale DNS. IHttpClientFactory solves both.
Concurrency, Multithreading, Async, and Parallelism
They overlap but aren't the same. Here's how they relate.
On-Stack Replacement in .NET 7
Tiered compilation had a blind spot for long-running loops. OSR fixes that.