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(for the "AI detectives": yes, I type "—" on my keyboard by pressing OPT+Shift+-) It’s been a while since my last post. A lot has happened, and it’s time to share some good stuff. To be honest, I missed writing 🙂 As always, we’ll keep it dry and use...
First In First Out (FIFO) in Message Brokers
Today, let's dive into the somewhat unpredictable and potentially risky behavior of the C# 8.0 "Using Declaration" feature. As always, no boring long introduction paragraphs, let's get straight to the point! What is Using Declaration? In C# 7.0 we di...
In recent months, the buzz around AI assistants, particularly our "old new" friend ChatGPT, has been impossible to ignore. If you've ever requested it to generate code for you, chances are you received a fairly decent result. However, it likely requi...
The title may sound bold and clickbait-ish, but it is what it is... A few days ago I stumbled upon a post on LinkedIn (unfortunately, I didn't save the link) in which a programmer demonstrated his solution to a LeetCode challenge. The code was fine a...
Why your IDE matters
(The same is true for IAsyncEnumerable<T>) A few days ago I came across a code where a developer used .NET MemoryCache to cache data retrieved from the database. Sounds boring, but... every time the cache needed to return a result, a call to the data...
AutoFixture is an amazing library that simplifies the process of creating test data in .NET. If for some reason you don't use this fantastic tool, it's time to consider it. Today, I'm going to share some tips for using AutoFixture that will be benefi...
The ConcurrentDictionary<TKey, TValue> type is commonly used as a thread-safe alternative to the Dictionary<TKey, TValue> type. While the methods of this type are atomic, it's important to keep in mind that when the AddOrUpdate and GetOrAdd methods a...