Over the weekend my latest course was published. This one tackles 2 somewhat underused features of OpenAPI: generating code from an OpenAPI specification and learning how it can help with generating API tests. Here’s what you can expect: Testing an API improves its reliability. Generating client-side code helps with getting started fast when building a… Read more »
On Friday April 12th (2019) I’m delivering a session on Async Best Practices in ASP.NET Core for Team It Up in ‘s Hertogenbosch (The Netherlands). Doors open at 5pm, food and drinks are included, and the session is free to attend. Interested? You can sign up here. Here’s what the session will cover: Did you… Read more »
If you’ve been following my courses at Pluralsight you know I’m mostly focused on APIs and security. Up until now, I never really touched upon documenting such an API. Well, today I’m happy to announce that my new course is a deep dive into documenting an ASP.NET Core API with OpenAPI (Swagger) – and it’s… Read more »
I just pushed a new release of Marvin.Cache.Headers to NuGet. This feature release adds a new extension point (via ILastModifiedInjector) that allows injecting the LastModified date for resources for which you explicitly know that date. By default the middleware assumes the LastModified date is the date at which the request first hits the middleware. In… Read more »
Part of the Techorama 2019 – Space Edition agenda has been released, and I’m on it Techorama is Belgium’s biggest IT conference, with about 1700 expected attendees and over 130 sessions. I’ll deliver a (completely new!) session on using HttpClient in .NET Core. Some info: Applications, ranging from ASP.NET Core web apps over mobile Xamarin… Read more »
I created quite a few courses on building APIs with ASP.NET Core in the past. One of the questions that often pops up is “ok, well, now how do I consume such an API?” If you’re wondering about that as well, my new course is for you It’s an in-depth look at using HttpClient… Read more »
I just released a new NuGet package, Marvin.StreamExtensions. It contains a set of helper extension methods (on Stream) for working with streams which I find particularly useful for interacting with an API through HttpClient. Working with streams when interacting with an API has the advantage of lowering your memory footprint and potentially improves performance as… Read more »
On Wednesday, November 21st I’ll be delivering a session at the IT Dev Café Meetup. This edition of the meetup is focused on .NET Core. There’s actually two sessions you’ll be able to attend: mine will cover tips and tricks on using async in ASP.NET Core, and Peter Himschoot will cover Blazor. Here’s some more… Read more »
I just finished my session at Techorama NL 2018 on Best Practices for Building Async APIs in ASP.NET Core. Here’s what that was about: Did you know the main driver for async isn’t performance but scalability? Ever wondered why it makes sense to async I/O-bound tasks, but why doing the same with a long-running algorithm… Read more »
Today I’m very happy to announce that Marvin.Cache.Headers 3.0 reached RTM. This is a *big* release, very much focused on customization. If you’re new to Marvin.Cache.Headers, here’s what to expect: Marvin.Cache.Headers is ASP.NET Core middleware that adds HttpCache headers to responses (Cache-Control, Expires, ETag, Last-Modified), and implements cache expiration and validation models. It can be… Read more »
