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everything I'm learning about modern .NET.
Tutorials, deep-dives, and field notes on .NET, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, AWS, Docker, and the architecture that holds up in production. Written when I've shipped something or learned something worth sharing.
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dotnet awsAmazon DynamoDB Streams for .NET Developers - A Complete Getting Started Guide
DynamoDB Streams offer a powerful way to capture real-time changes in your DynamoDB tables, enabling event-driven architectures, auditing, replication, and more. In this guide, I will walk you through everything .NET developers need to know to get started with DynamoDB Streams. By the end of this guide, you’ll have a solid foundation for integrating DynamoDB Streams into your .NET applications, unlocking real-time data processing capabilities to enhance your architecture.
Mar 3, 2025 · 12 min read → -
dotnet awsAmazon SQS vs SNS - Choosing the Right Messaging Service for Your Architecture
Modern distributed systems rely on messaging services like Amazon SQS and SNS. They help you decouple these interconnected components, ensuring each part works independently yet harmoniously. Whether it’s queuing tasks for reliable processing with SQS or broadcasting real-time notifications to multiple subscribers with SNS, these tools play a pivotal role in simplifying complex workflows.
Jan 29, 2025 · 15 min read → -
dotnet aws +1Amazon DynamoDB Time to Live (TTL) for .NET Developers - A Complete Guide
Learn how to implement Amazon DynamoDB Time to Live (TTL) for efficient data expiration in .NET applications. This guide explains the basics of TTL, showing you how to automatically remove outdated items and optimize database operations. Perfect for developers, this guide ensures you can effectively manage data life cycles with DynamoDB's powerful TTL feature.
Dec 28, 2024 · 9 min read → -
dotnet aws +1Amazon DynamoDB Batch Operations with .NET - Read, Write & Delete
Batch operations in Amazon DynamoDB allow developers to efficiently perform multiple read, write, update, and delete actions in a single request, optimizing performance and reducing costs. In this article, we'll explore how to implement batch operations using DynamoDBContext in the AWS .NET SDK. By building a simple .NET web API, you'll gain hands-on experience working with DynamoDB batch operations in a practical context.
Dec 25, 2024 · 13 min read → -
dotnet aws +1Amazon RDS for .NET Developers Using EF Core - Complete Guide with CRUD
This Guide on Amazon RDS for .NET Developers covers everything you need to know to integrate RDS into your .NET applications seamlessly. From choosing the right database engine (like PostgreSQL) to setting up instances, implementing EF Core for CRUD operations, and scaling with read replicas, this guide equips you with the knowledge and skills to build robust, scalable solutions.
Dec 22, 2024 · 19 min read → -
dotnet aws +2How to Deploy .NET AWS Lambda with Terraform - A Beginner’s Guide
Serverless applications have become a key component of modern software solutions. In many of the .NET projects I've worked on, AWS Lambda plays a pivotal role in the overall system architecture. With Terraform being one of the most widely used Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, mastering how to efficiently deploy .NET Lambda functions to AWS is an essential skill for any developer.
Dec 15, 2024 · 12 min read → -
dotnet aws +1GitHub Actions CI/CD Pipeline for Deploying .NET Web API to Amazon ECS
Let’s automate the deployment of a brand-new .NET 9 Web API to Amazon ECS using a GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline. In this guide, we’ll walk through building a .NET 9 Docker image directly on GitHub, pushing it to Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), creating an ECS task definition, and configuring an ECS service to fetch and deploy the latest Docker image. By the end, your application will be up and running on ECS with a fully automated workflow.
Nov 23, 2024 · 12 min read → -
dotnet awsChoosing the Best AWS Compute Service for your .NET Solution - Detailed Guide
This comprehensive guide, Choosing the Best AWS Compute Service for your .NET Solution, will explore everything you need to know about selecting the right AWS compute option for your .NET applications. From EC2 to Lambda, we'll compare cost, operational overhead, ease of deployment, and more, providing you with the insights needed to make an informed decision. Whether you're new to AWS or looking to deepen your cloud expertise, this guide will equip you with the knowledge and tools necessary to choose the most suitable compute service for your specific .NET project requirements.
Nov 17, 2024 · 17 min read → -
dotnet terraform +1Automate AWS Infrastructure Provisioning with Terraform - Beginner's Guide for .NET Developers
Terraform is a powerful tool for automating infrastructure deployment and management across multiple cloud providers. Whether you are new to infrastructure as code or looking to deepen your Terraform expertise, this guide will provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively manage infrastructure in your projects, regardless of the technology stack you work with.
Aug 27, 2024 · 18 min read → -
dotnetResponse Caching with MediatR in ASP.NET Core - Powerful Pipeline Behavior
In this article, we are going to implement Response Caching with MediatR in ASP.NET Core using its awesome Pipeline Behaviours. I have written a couple of articles about MediatR and why it's one of the MUST USE libraries for .NET Developers.
Jun 24, 2024 · 9 min read → -
dotnet awsAWS Message Processing Framework for .NET - Simplifying AWS Based Messaging Applications in .NET
The AWS Message Processing Framework for .NET is a wrapper over the AWS Messaging Services like Amazon SNS, SQS, and Event Bridge that helps reduce a significant amount of boilerplate code needed to interact with these AWS Services, further simplifying the development of messaging in .NET applications. In this article, we will explore this framework, and build sample applications that would use SQS, and SNS.
May 29, 2024 · 7 min read → -
dotnet awsPagination in Amazon DynamoDB with .NET - Improve your API Performance!
Amazon DynamoDB is the go-to serverless NoSQL Solution from AWS and is very sought-after for building serverless applications on the cloud. Pagination is one feature that helps massively improve your application response times in case you have large volumes of data stored in your database. In this article, we will learn about implementing pagination in Amazon DynamoDB with the .NET AWS SDK!
May 9, 2024 · 10 min read →