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Building and consuming GraphQL API in ASP.NET Core 5
Since Roy Fielding coined REST in 2000, many applications have been built worldwide by adhering to the REST architectural constraints. REST has become widely popular primarily because of its simplicity...
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Cache strategies in Redis
Redis is a cache database that stores documents in memory. The data store has a key-value pair lookup with O(1) time complexity. This makes the cache fast and convenient because it does not have to...
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10 reasons why Python is better than C# (or almost any other programming...
Nearly 10 years ago, I wrote an article on this website comparing C# unfavourably with Visual Basic, which prompted many comments, roughly equally divided between praise and censure. My favourite two...
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Unity state machine behaviours
An animation in a Unity project is an opportunity to perform many additional actions on top of the animation itself. These actions can be anything the developer desires, including allowing specific...
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A Practical Guide to Dapper
The Data Access Layer (DAL) is often the most critical part of any application. Dapper is a micro-ORM built with simplicity, top-notch performance, and ease of use in mind. In this take, I will walk...
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Figuring out uniqueness in large datasets is somewhat trivial in SQL via the DISTINCT statement. This DISTINCT technique, however, puts a load on the SQL box to where it is more beneficial to scale out...
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Inline PDF Viewer in an Angular App? Now you can
PDF and web have never been friends — so much so that most users always download a PDF before viewing it. This has changed a lot in recent years. Browsers do support the viewing of pdfs in separate...
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How to secure legacy ASP.NET MVC against Cross-Site (CSRF) Attacks
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks are widespread, and even some BigTech companies suffer from them. Netflix suffered in 2006 with CSRF vulnerabilities. Attackers could change login credentials,...
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AWS Step Functions in C#
Step functions allow complex solutions to process data in the background. This frees users from having to wait on the results while it is running. Imagine a use case where someone uploads a resume...
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AWS Step Functions in C# – Part 2
In part one of this series, I built a state machine which runs in the background to process uploaded resumes via step functions in C#. The overall process took seconds to complete, and this made it...
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C# Cancellation Tokens in AWS
A colleague of mine once asked about cancellation tokens in AWS. This question got me thinking about this problem and got me curious on whether there is any support. Turns out it is an interesting...
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