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Episode 11: Connecting to Redis with .Net Core and C#

Apr 7, 2020 By Request Metrics In Request Metrics
We've finally finished screwing around with basic groundwork. Today we start writing actually useful application code! First, can we connect to Redis? Connecting to Redis implies some connection strings, so we'll create a basic environment based configuration while we're thinking about it.
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Query string parsing in .NET: The old way vs. the new, which is better?

Apr 1, 2020 By Request Metrics In Request Metrics
Query string parsing in ASP.NET has never been pleasant. The APIs were always a little weird and had some gotchas. Well, in .NET Core, Microsoft has taken another stab at a query string parsing API. Now, remember, they've had over a decade to come up with something better.... have they managed to improve things? Let's find out.
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Episode 9: Running ASP.NET Core Applications Using Systemd and Ansible

Mar 30, 2020 By Request Metrics In Request Metrics
A web application isn't much use if it isn't running. We hand in our neckbeard cards and copy+paste our way out of the problem. Last episode, we configured NGINX to act as a reverse proxy for our Asp.Net Core application. We tested our setup by manually running the .Net Core app from an SSH session. Today we'll fix that stop-gap step by running our application as a service with systemd. We'll add the new service by running a few tasks in Ansible.
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Episode 8: Configuring NGINX with Ansible to Support ASP.NET Core

Mar 25, 2020 By Request Metrics In Request Metrics
ASP.NET Core applications have a built-in webserver called Kestrel. This internal webserver is not intended to serve requests directly. It must be placed behind a production quality webserver such as NGINX or IIS. We use Ansible to provision NGINX on our Linux server.
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.NET Developer Finds Latent Bugs with Prefix

Mar 18, 2020 By Maddie Horton In Stackify

Rostyslav Kosmirak is a .NET developer from Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine using Rider and Visual Studio IDE. Kosmirak was not looking for a Dynamic Code Profiler when he came across Prefix. Kosmirak explains that initially he was searching through Google for a log management system when he stumbled on Prefix. Upon downloading, Kosmirak discovered hidden performance problems in his code before they manifested to actual performance problems.

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C# Exception Handling Best Practices

Mar 4, 2020 By Matt Watson In Stackify

Welcome to Stackify’s guide to C# exception handling. Why is this topic so important? In modern languages like C#, “problems” are typically modeled using exceptions. Jeff Atwood (of StackOverflow fame) once called exceptions “the bread and butter of modern programming languages.” That should give you an idea of how important this construct is.

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