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Building Kafka Event-Driven Applications with KafkaFlow
KafkaFlow, a .NET open-source project, simplifies Kafka-based event-driven app development with features like middleware for message processing, enhancing maintainability, customization potential, and allowing developers to prioritize business logic.
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Monitoring Critical User Journeys in Azure
Flowe explains how they combine metrics from many sources together in Azure to monitor Critical User Journeys and prevent downtime for a critical application.
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TimeProvider and ITimer: Writing Unit Tests with Time in .NET 8 Preview 4
The article discusses the challenges of writing unit tests and handling date and time in .NET. TimeProvider and ITimer are new universal time abstractions available in NET 8 Preview 4 for dependency injections and unit testing, offering extensive functionality for managing time-related operations.
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Using Project Orleans to Build Actor-Based Solutions on the .Net Platform
This article takes a look at Project Orleans, an actor model framework from Microsoft. Version 7 makes it a lot easier to get started with, as it builds on top of the .NET IHost abstraction. This allows us to add it to .NET applications in a simple way. On top of that it abstracts away most of the complicated parts, allowing us to focus on the important stuff, the problems we need to solve.
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ASP.NET SPA Templates Proxy Changes from .NET 5 to .NET 6, .NET 7, and on
From .NET 6 the communication between front-end Single Page Applications (SPA) in ASP.NET and back-end .NET API was changed, with the SPA templates using the front end’s proxy solutions. A proxy for the development servers enables readable and debuggable code for both the front and back end, with the new approach resulting in a more independent back end.
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InfoQ Software Architecture and Design Trends Report - April 2023
This article provides an overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2023, with a focus on what architects are designing for today.
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Using ASP.NET Core 7 Minimal APIs: Request Filters, Parameter Mapping, and More
Several features have been added to Minimal APIs with the .NET 7 release. This tutorial shows how they are now almost as powerful as traditional controller-based APIs while being far less verbose.
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Building Functional .NET Applications: a Guide for Choosing between F# vs C#
C# and F# are languages, each with growing user bases, that approach functional programming in fundamentally different ways. C# relies on object-oriented, imperative principles, and F# relies on functional principles. Some developers are using F# as a complement to C#, rather than relying on the functional capabilities that exist natively in C#.
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Accessing .NET gRPC Endpoints from Anywhere via JSON Transcoding
JSON transcoding is a feature that has been added to gRPC in .NET 7. It allows gRPC endpoints to be accessible via a REST API, and it's much easier to set up than any alternative technology available at the time of writing, such as gRPC-Gateway and gRPC-Web.
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Moving to .NET 7 MSMQ Alternatives
No MSMQ support is available in the new versions of .NET; if it’s time to move, this article presents a few considerations on what that transition can look like. It will explore some of the available options. By the end, you should see that even though it may be tough, there is a pathway forward.
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Polyglot Microservices Communication Using Dapr on AKS
Dapr is a useful tool for solving several challenges engineers might face. It allows engineering organizations to gain productivity by training developers on a common set of tools and techniques. It also helps adopt standardization in development, deployment, and debugging.
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InfoQ .NET Trends Report 2022
Every year, all InfoQ editors invite seasoned developers and practitioners from the industry to discuss the current trends in the entire software development landscape. In this article, we discuss some of the .NET Trends for 2022, divided into four stages of adoption.