#559 – June 01, 2025
protect your services during instability
Circuit breaker policy fine-tuning best practice
8 minutes by Xin Lyu
Xin Lyu provides a comprehensive guide to implementing and fine-tuning the circuit breaker resilience policy in Polly for .NET applications. He explains how the circuit breaker temporarily halts failing operations to protect services during instability, detailing key configuration parameters. The article offers practical tuning recommendations to ensure sufficient coverage, avoid false positives, and enable timely recovery.
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Converting a docker-compose file to .NET Aspire
18 minutes by Andrew Lock
Andrew demonstrates how to convert a docker-compose.yml configuration for the open-source mailing list manager listmonk into a .NET Aspire application. He successfully models both the PostgreSQL database and the listmonk app in Aspire, maintaining the same functionality while gaining the benefits of the .NET ecosystem.
How to get Windows 8.3 short file names
11 minutes by Nietras
Nietras shows how to work with Windows 8.3 short paths to overcome limitations with long file paths, particularly on network shares.
Using pattern matching in C# for performance optimization
3 minutes by Gérald Barré
Gérald demonstrates how using C# pattern matching syntax can lead to more optimized code than traditional methods. He compares three different ways to check if a version number matches specific values: using multiple OR conditions, pattern matching with the 'is' keyword, and switch expressions.
JWT Authention in .NET Core
4 minutes by Ravindra Devrani
Ravindra provides a step-by-step guide for creating a secure .NET 9 web API with JWT authentication. It covers project setup, JWT configuration, implementing token and user services, creating a login endpoint, and implementing role-based authorization with examples of protecting resources for specific roles.
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