Minimal APIs are the biggest shift in ASP.NET Core since version 1.0. They remove the MVC ceremony (Controllers, Actions, Filters) in favor of a fluent lambda-based syntax. The Code Is it just for tiny apps? No. Performance is technically better than MVC (fewer allocations, no Filter Pipeline overhead). However, organization becomes the challenge. You don’t […]
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Dependency Injection in .NET: Service Lifetimes
Using the wrong DI lifetime is the #1 cause of concurrency bugs in ASP.NET Core. We revisit Singleton, Scoped, and Transient with a focus on thread safety. The Three Lifetimes Lifetime Created… Thread Safety Transient Every time requested Safe (Instance per usage) Scoped Once per HTTP Request Safe (Single thread per request) Singleton Once per […]
Read more →React Server Components: The Future of React?
Late 2020 brought a preview of “React Server Components” (RSC). This is a paradigm shift. Unlike Server-Side Rendering (SSR) which merely sends HTML, RSCs allow components to run exclusively on the server, never sending their code to the client bundle. Client vs Server Components The Zero-Bundle-Size Promise If a component uses a large library (like […]
Read more →Azure Landing Zones: Enterprise-Scale Architecture
Moving to the cloud is easy; managing it at scale is hard. “Azure Landing Zones” is the Microsoft-recommended architecture for building a scalable, secure, and compliant foundation. It moves away from the “single subscription” model to a “subscription democratization” model managed by Management Groups and Azure Policy. This guide explores the “Enterprise-Scale” reference architecture. The […]
Read more →Clean Architecture in .NET: Practical Implementation
Clean Architecture keeps your business logic independent of frameworks and databases. Here’s how I implement it in .NET projects. The Layers Domain: Entities, value objects, domain events Application: Use cases, interfaces, DTOs Infrastructure: Database, external services WebAPI: Controllers, middleware Project Structure Dependency Rule Dependencies point inward. Domain has no dependencies. Application depends on Domain. Infrastructure […]
Read more →Event Sourcing Fundamentals: Storing Events Instead of State
Event Sourcing flips traditional database design on its head. Instead of storing current state, you store the events that led to that state. It’s not for every project, but when it fits, it’s powerful. The Concept In a typical system, you update records in place. An order goes from “pending” to “shipped” by updating a […]
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