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I was looking through some of my bookmarked Github issues when I rediscovered issue #32488, in that issue a comment was made that caught my attention. The comment stated that in .NET the order of interfaces impacts performance. This is because in the .NET CLR all class definitions have a collection of methods and interface definitions. Casting is a linear search that walks the interface definition. If you are constantly casting to an Interface located at the end then the CLR must do a longer walk. ...

Writing good documentation is such an underrated skill, to that extent so is writing ReadME files, ReadME files can be an awesome addition to your project. They give you an opportunity to document all sorts of stuff. For me, a good project should come along with a good ReadME file. The file should outline everything that is necessary for me to interact with the project. Like how to run the unit/integration test, the project’s architecture, any terminology, the roadmap for the project, and the most important piece, examples on how to use the project. ...

HTML, CSS, and Javascript, are the languages of the world wide web, the platform. They are used to create websites, to make them interactive, and to make them beautiful. At one point in my career, I was more plugged into this world. A world that I feel I’ve fallen behind since I myself have not exclusively worked on a UI project since the days of AngularJS. That doesn’t mean that I don’t do any front-end work anymore, it is just that these days I spent most of the time doing back-end development. I am familiar with some of the modern frameworks like Angular, React.js, Next.js and everyone’s new favorite, svelte. By falling behind I mean that I am not up to date with some of the new tools and technologies that have been created since the days of AngularJS. I want to use this post to write about some of these new techniques and tools that are available for front-end development. ...

A worker service is a type of Background Service that are generally use for long-running task. They can be seen as the equivalent of Windows Services in the .NET Framework, though a worker service is not limited to just windows. If you are building a worker service, then more than likely you will need to be able to write log data, be that general information of the worker services or perhaps just errors. If you plan to use Serilog, then this post will show you how to configure Serilog on a worker project. ...

So far in my JSON:API series I’ve covered the home resource, adding your own resource, adding an exception handling middleware and how to expose relationship between resources. For the today’s post, I would like to cover creating resources. I will update the chinook project by allowing POST request on the customers collections to add new customers. To get started, the customer controller needs to have a method that will accept the incoming POST request. I’ve decided to call the method CreateCustomerResource, the method will accept a JSON:API document from the request body. The full method signature is defined below. ...