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Architectural Decision Guide: When to Adopt FastEndpoints
As software architects, our job is rarely about choosing the "coolest" tool. It is about choosing the tool that minimizes technical debt, maximizes developer velocity, and aligns with the system's…
Knowing When (and When Not) to Use Cloud Functions
In the modern landscape of cloud computing, "Serverless" has become a major buzzword. At the heart of this movement is Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), more commonly known as Cloud Functions. Every major cloud…
Graceful Terminations in GKE: Mastering SIGTERM in .NET APIs
In the world of cloud-native development, "stability" is often synonymous with how well your application handles its own demise. When running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), pods are constantly being moved,…
The Silent Killer of Serverless Performance: Avoiding the “Warm Start” Memory Trap
Why your Cloud Functions run out of memory on the 100th request, and the best practices to fix it. Introduction: The "It Worked Locally" Mystery You’ve just deployed a new…
C# code performance improvement with Span<T> Type
A new structure Span<T> was introduced since C# The main goal of it is to avoid allocating new objects on heap memory when working with the contiguous region of arbitrary memory requirements. …
Understanding Thread Starvation in .NET Core Applications
Most of the applications will be facing a performance issue while scaling and this might be due to thread starvation. Before getting into the thread starvation problem, we need to…
Working with Async/Await/Task keywords in depth
Modern systems are coming more powerful with multiple processors. Similarly, the modern server application development also improved to leverage the host CPU power for processing multiple requests in parallel to…
Understanding worker thread and I/O Completion Port (IOCP)
Every .NET/.NET Core application is associated with a thread pool and is a collection of threads that effectively executes asynchronous calls of an application. These threads on the thread pool…
Working with gRPC in .NET Core
Overview This article will do a brief introduction to the gRPC framework, then will see how gRPC services can be created with Core and how we can invoke these services…
Implementing .NET Core Health Checks
Generally, when we are using any uptime monitoring systems or load balancers, these systems will keep monitoring the health of the application and based on its health condition it will…