C# .NET Software Engineer
Introduction: The Secret’s Out That sinking feeling again. You’re reviewing the latest Wiz (or similar security tooling) report when you spot it: a critical API secret sitting in your main…
If you’re looking specifically at troubleshooting API and network problems in Azure App Services, check out my previous post. Introduction to Azure Kudu Diagnostics If you run workloads on Azure…
In my previous articles, I showed you how to configure a local instance of NLWeb and connect to Azure AI Search and AI Foundry, as well as how to build…
This guide is part two of a series. In part one, we explored how to set up NLWeb locally, connect it to Azure AI Search and Azure AI Foundry, and…
I’ve spent the last few weeks exploring NLWeb, Microsoft’s open-source framework for grounded conversational AI. NLWeb (short for Natural Language Web) is a framework designed to make web systems interact…
Benchmarking in .NET 10 with BenchmarkDotNet It’s hard to remember a time when benchmarking was so simple! Gone are the days when inserting manual timestamps to output and using Windows’…
Intro: System.Text.Json vs Newtonsoft.Json Disclaimer: Though it pains me, I’ve purposefully used the American variant of “Serialization” vs the British “Serialisation” for consistency in this post. In the post-lull period…
Background I recently wrote a post on Streaming Massive Data with IAsyncEnumerable where I showed how streaming can dramatically improve responsiveness when working with huge datasets. One of the CSVs…
Streaming Massive Data in C# Web Applications If you’ve ever worked with large datasets, you’ll be well aware of the challenges when serving that content to front-end clients. Large datasets…
Troubleshooting Azure App Services Working with Azure App Services is great, but the usual tell-tale signs that something’s not working as expected – like your fans blowing at full speed…
John Russell