Archives for .Net Core
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…
Understanding FastEndpoints in .NET
In the evolution of Core, we have moved from the rigid structure of MVC (Model-View-Controller) to the streamlined simplicity of Minimal APIs. However, as applications grow, Minimal APIs can become…
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# Timers Explained: PeriodicTimer vs. System.Timers.Timer vs. System.Threading.Timer
If you have been coding in C# for a little while, you have likely run into a situation where you need to run a piece of code repeatedly—maybe polling an…
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 Task vs ValueTask
These days most of the Interfaces we are seeing with methods have a return type as ValueTask. So, through this article, we are going to understand What is ValueTask? How…
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…