Category: Software-Development

While reactive strategies respond to failures after they occur, proactive strategies prevent problems before they happen. In this post, we'll explore the two …

Polly provides several reactive resilience strategies that respond to failures as they occur. In this post, we'll explore four essential reactive strategies: …

It's inevitable that production will fail. Your ability to respond quickly greatly depends on being able to determine what went wrong.

Adding observability to Polly resilience pipelines involves configuring TelemetryOptions for logging, customizing severity levels for resilience events, …

Learn how to create a GitHub template repository with boilerplate files for .NET 10 applications optimized for AI coding agents.

Sometimes it can be really useful to add commands to your Aspire dashboard. It's easy to do and amazingly useful.

One of the greatest features of Aspire is how easy it is to set up, configure, and work with databases.

In this post, Sadukie breaks down some concepts seen in testing that can get muddled - test doubles, fakes, stubs, mocks, and spies.

C# 14 now lets you use a null-conditional operator on the left side of an assignment

With the arrival of Aspire 13, Aspire now provides an MCP server that your AI coding agent can access to see the logs of your running Aspire application.

The Aspire CLI provides a quick and easy way to access and work with Aspire from your command line.

A spooky themed exploration of the Outbox Pattern in NServiceBus to handle message delivery challenges.

Tired of bloated Controllers and messy Minimal APIs? Discover how FastEndpoints solves common .NET API problems with the REPR pattern, better organization, and …

Sadukie shares what she's found looking at Minecraft projects - from simple shelters to massive, automated farms - and realizing they're brimming with …

Exploring the behaviors in NServiceBus and how they can be used to customize message processing.

Learn how to use the Git command line to fully control what parts of files you commit. Use the interactive Patch Mode to split hunks further to refine your …

Let's take a step back and talk about why .NET Aspire is relevant to today's developers, why they should care, and how to take an existing app and Aspire it.

Rather than using built-in exceptions, you can create your own custom exceptions to use in your application. They're easy to create and are far more …

Exploring the Unit of Work pattern and how NServiceBus simplifies its implementation in distributed systems.

Exploring the recoverability features of NServiceBus and how they can be leveraged to build resilient distributed systems.

Why are there so many containers in eShopOnNServiceBus?! Sadukie demystifies that in this post!

It is optimal to not have pending database migrations when starting fresh on a new task, as letting them into stable branches leaves a stable branch in an …

Building applications that can withstand transient failures—whether due to infrastructure hiccups or unreliable external services—is far easier when you …

Mark commits you make locally as Verified in GitHub by using GPG to sign the commits you make.

Let's demystify Authentication, Authorization, and OAuth.

Scott attended Stir Trek's 2025 conference this year. In addition to learning a lot, there are other benefits to attending a live, in-person conference!

Baking a cake gone wrong can teach you more about user experience than you think! Discover practical UX principles learned from a real-life red velvet disaster, …

The quality of your application code can be measured in many ways. Let's take a step back and consider measuring said quality based on how easy (or difficult) …

NimblePros has been named a Particular Software Partner in recognition of our expertise with NServiceBus and our success in helping clients build scalable, …

Learn two simple rules to avoid AutoMapper headaches in .NET: only use implicit mappings and only map outwards from your domain. No more hidden business logic …

By default ASP.NET Core Identity will not add support for Roles interaction. Find out how to re-add it in this post!

Take advantage of C#'s 'in' keyword to modify parameters, making them immutable and passed more efficiently.

This week's Question of the Week is about Design Patterns! What is your go-to and how has it saved the day?

Write cleaner test assertions with better messaging using the Shouldly library

In this blog post, we'll explore how Santa can automate his workshop using Event-Driven Architecture and NServiceBus

See how to take advantage of Random.Shared in your C# code while also making it testable.

Just as holiday cookie recipes give you tried-and-true methods for festive treats, design patterns provide proven solutions to common coding challenges. In this …

With the release of .NET, LINQ has some new features. In this post, we'll look at CountBy, AggregateBy, and Index.

Optimize your SQL by performing advanced grouping using RANK()/ROW_NUMBER() and PARTITION BY instead of manually iterating over data.

Architecting to Scale - Part 3 - Moving to Microservices

Architecting to Scale - Part 2 - Scaling the Monolith

Learn to identify and avoid common loop antipatterns in C#. Improve your code's efficiency and readability today!

Discover a quirk in C# records when using both positional parameters and declared properties.

Learn how to write tests for your supercharged sagas and strategies for getting the most value out of those tests.

Architecting to Scale - Part 1 - Carving the Monolith

Let's cover what a saga timeout is and how to implement them using NServiceBus!

Discover how .NET 7's GeneratedRegexAttribute optimizes the performance of your regular expressions.

This article continues the discussion on NServiceBus sagas and demonstrates how to implement your first saga.

An introduction to NServiceBus Sagas and how they can be used to manage long-running processes in distributed systems.

AutoMapper isn't the tool for every scenario, but what is done in these more complex cases? Is AutoMapper still useful when more complexity is present?

Legacy code refactoring made easier with characterization tests. Using Verify and Bogus, capture current behavior efficiently, enabling confident code …

Organizing Client Gear

Customize Application Time Zone with TimeProvider

Fix ENDOFLINE Build Error in your Continuous Integration

Wrap It Up - Deferring Unknown Dependencies with the Wrapper Pattern

A brief introduction to unit testing NServiceBus message handlers using the NServiceBus.Testing package

There are many ways to work with `dotnet run` as a background process. Let's look at other options to DotnetBackground.

Learn how to run your .NET projects in the background for easier testing.

A brief comparison of messages, commands, and events in distributed systems as implemented by NServiceBus

Pull Request Etiquette

Getting started with NServiceBus

What is NServiceBus? In this article, we will look at NServiceBus and the Particular Service Platform and what it can do for you.

A brief introduction into the concept of asynchronous messaging

Generic Math Capabilities With .NET 7

A simple question. I have a set of tasks to perform and I want to optimize their performance. Each operation is atomic, none of them depend on one another. So, …

What happens when we prompt AI to help write a platonic Valentine's Day poem for people who love code katas, design patterns, and software architecture? Read …

Bogus and the Builder pattern join forces to simplify test data generation and improve the quality of your test suite.

Explore essential SQL queries for analyzing your SQL Server database, covering stored procedures, tables, and views to understand structure, size, and …

On Learning New Programming Languages

Refit: Adding Bearer Authentication

Using the Bogus library to create realistic test data for domain-driven applications.

Refit: Logging HTTP Traffic

Where C# Primary Constructors Make Sense

Getting Started with Refit

A walkthrough of how to use AutoFixture to generate test data and how it can help you write better tests.

.NET 8 Finally Gives Us A Time Abstraction - TimeProvider

When building objects in tests, there are 3 design patterns that assist with building test objects - Factory pattern, Object Mother, and Builder pattern.

In this article, we compare how to do things in Moq versus NSubstitute.

Sometimes, the gap between a company's technological needs and its current capabilities becomes too wide to bridge internally. That's where a fractional Chief …

If you have to migrate from .NET Framework to .NET Core, SystemWebAdapters can help with the load. They work with VB.NET and C#.

Using the pre-commit Git Hook, you can prevent checking in sloppy code and broken tests.

Formatters can help with consistent code styles, improving readability and maintainability of code.

The Guardians of the Galaxy wrote some code for their travel log app. However, it could use some clean up of code smells and improvements using the Ardalis …

How to get around Postgres' auto lowercasing of queries when using EF Core

Celebrating Dr. Barbara Liskov, the woman behind the L in SOLID

Exploring 7 New and Enhanced LINQ APIs in .NET 6

Identifying Variable Casing Conventions for Improved Readability

Getting Meaningful Code Coverage Information with Coverlet and Report Generator

Using workflow_run in GitHub Actions

Automating .NET Web App Deployment with GitHub Actions and Azure

How to run and debug your application in Linux using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) and Visual Studio Code.

Comparing compression options in .NET

Everything is Functions: Two C# Developers Learning F#

DataAnnotations and Non-Nullable Required Inference

AutoMapper Madness - ReverseMap and Config Validation

C# struct constructors might not work the way you expect.

Enhance the readability of your tests by customizing Fluent Assertions to your use cases!

AutoMapper Madness - Nuances in Self-Mapping

How SQL is screwing up your DDD

How to make sure you are comparing apples to apples when benchmarking in .NET

A description of the different ways to repeat a string N times in C#

Convert Results from one type to another using the new Map extension method!

A step by step guide to setting up a benchmarking project in .NET

AutoMapper Madness - Unit Testing Your Maps

AutoMapper Madness - Getting Started in Your C# Application

Using helper extension methods to reduce noise and duplication in ASP.NET Core integration/functional tests. Write your own or use a NuGet package.

Fix missing default NuGet feed

Streamlining Your NuGet Package Versions

Getting Started With Ardalis.Specification Nuget Package

Getting Started With Ardalis.Result

Structured Logging with Serilog and App Insights

Persisting a Smart Enum with Entity Framework Core

Extending Guard Clauses

Getting started with Guard Clauses

All the basics you need to set up localization in an ASP.NET Core API app.