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Introducing Dictionary in C# Dictionary<TKey, TValue> is one of the fastest and most important collections in .NET. Nearly every high-performance C# application relies on dictionaries for fast key-based lookups, caching,…
String Comparison in C# String comparison in C# isn’t just about equality – it has a direct impact on performance, correctness, and even behaviour across different cultures. In my previous…
Redirect handling seems trivial until it suddenly isn’t. When implementing FrozenDictionary in C#, it quickly becomes clear that even small inefficiencies in redirect lookups can have a measurable impact at…
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…
John Russell