13 articles
Minimal APIs are the recommended approach for building HTTP APIs in ASP.NET Core. Introduced in .NET 6 and significantly enhanced through each release, Minimal APIs in .NET 10 have matured into a production-ready framework with built-in ...
By Huy Vũ
Logging is the first thing I set up in every new ASP.NET Core project - before the database, before authentication, before anything else. Without structured logging, you are flying blind in production. Debugging turns into grepping throu...
By Huy Vũ
Here's a scenario: A user makes a request to your API, it starts processing, then the user gets impatient and closes their browser. Your API? Still chugging away, doing work that nobody will ever see. Database queries running, external A...
By Huy Vũ
When working with HttpClient in ASP.NET Core, developers often fall into common traps that can lead to poor performance, resource exhaustion, and unreliable applications. These aren't just theoretical problems—they're the kind of issues ...
By Huy Vũ
I wrote custom IDistributedCache extension methods - GetOrSetAsync, TryGetValue, SetAsync with generics - for every project that needed Redis caching. Dozens of lines of boilerplate that I copied from project to project. HybridCache made...
By Huy Vũ
Clean Architecture in .NET organizes your code into four layers - Domain, Application, Infrastructure, and Presentation - where dependencies only point inward, toward the business rules. The Domain layer knows nothing about databases or ...
By selectgo