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Many developers, even experienced ones, misuse or misunderstand the terms DTO and POCO. They're similar, but different, concepts.

Many automated tests end up being more verbose than necessary, with a lot of plumbing and setup code. Using simple extension methods is one technique you can use to keep tests shorter without making them harder to read …

There's virtually no difference, physiologically, between the sensations and symptoms of fear and excitement. But there is a big difference in how we react based on these feelings, and it's possible to re-think how we …

A simpler approach to building API endpoints with ASP.NET Core.

A review of 2020 from early 2021.

There is some debate about whether the movie Die Hard (1988) should be categorized as a Christmas movie. On the one side are those who point to its central Christmas theme, music, and messaging, all of which add to and …

In distributed applications and microservices that send events or notifications to other apps or services, take care to include sufficient information in the messages themselves. Failure to do so will likely result in …

You can avoid a lot of problems by not putting you Entity Framework or Entity Framework Core DbContext instance in a using statement.

Little's Law describes the relationship between throughput, wait time, and work-in-progress. Understanding it can help with designing and optimizing systems and processes.

CAP Theorem generally applies to distribute databases. PACELC builds on CAP and describes system behavior when no network partition exists. Both of these can be applied in the context of microservices.