Articles

• 04 Sep 2022

  Enable HTTPS in .NET APIs with Manual Let's Encrypt

  Our Web APIs may provide or receive sensitive data that can be accessed or altered without using a security protocol....

• 04 Aug 2022

  Resilience APIs to Transient Faults using Polly

  Transient fault handling may seem complicated, but libraries like Polly can simplify it. Let's learn how to use the P...

• 04 Jul 2022

  Strategies to Handle Transient Faults in Web APIs

  Transient faults are inevitable, especially in microservice and cloud-based Web APIs. So, let's learn about the strat...

• 04 Jun 2022

  Top 9 Skills Every .NET Developer Must Have

  Being a .NET developer is more than just knowing how to code. Here are some of the top skills you need to start your....

• 04 May 2022

  One step beyond by using .NET Collections to its fullest

  .NET provides several collections namespaces that provide great flexibility when working with groups of objects. You'...

• 04 Apr 2022

  Must-Know Concepts Related to LINQ and IEnumerable

  Understanding LINQ and IEnumerable can be quite challenging because they involve several concepts. Read this article ...

• 04 Mar 2022

  Understanding the .NET Language Integrated Query (LINQ)

  LINQ provides powerful unified query syntax to query different data sources (e.g., SQL, XML, ADO.NET Datasets, Object...

• 04 Feb 2022

  .NET IdempotentAPI 1.0.0 Release Candidate

  .NET IdempotentAPI 1.0.0 (Release Candidate 1) is released with many improvements 🎉✨. If concurrent requests, idempot...

• 04 Jan 2022

  Enriched Web API Documentation using Swagger/OpenAPI in ASP.NET Core

  Keeping an up to date Web API documentation that provides all the necessary information (endpoints, data contracts, a...

• 04 Dec 2021

  All about Web API Versioning in ASP.NET Core

  Web API Versioning is not just mapping a version to each controller or action. We should decide the used version mech...

• 04 Nov 2021

  REST Web API in Practice: Improving towards Perfection

  Designing REST Web APIs in practice has many challenges. However, our decisions can improve our Web APIs usability, e...

• 04 Oct 2021

  REST Web API in Practice: Naming Endpoints, Filtering, Sorting, and Pagination

  In computer science, naming things is hard! When designing and naming the URLs structure, various questions and possi...

• 04 Sep 2021

  Designing a RESTful Web API

  An API can provide flexibility in our source code, product, and teams. Let's see which key points we should consider ...

• 04 Aug 2021

  How to Start Your Own Blogging Journey

  .NET Nakama became one year old. In this anniversary article, I share my experiences as a blogger (so far) and what h...

• 04 Jul 2021

  Idempotency for Fault-Tolerant Web APIs

  Building a fault-tolerant Web API for distributed systems is challenging because of several distribution pitfalls (pr...

• 04 Jun 2021

  CARE your Web APIs with Consistent and Structured Error Responses

  Would you like your Web APIs to be maintainable, usable and predictable by providing consistent and structured error ...

• 18 May 2021

  Static Code Analysis with NDepend

  Static code analysis provides great advantages, but which tool to choose? Hmmm, let's see if the NDepend tool would b...

• 04 May 2021

  Code Analysis to the Rescue!

  We are eager to create and maintain software projects with quality standards but sometimes, we can be lost along the ...

• 04 Apr 2021

  Let's talk about Blazor, baby!

  Blazor is here for you! Especially for .NET developers that have mostly worked in backend systems or/and in older and...

• 04 Mar 2021

  Creating and Testing ASP.NET Core Filter Attributes

  Creating a Filter Attribute in ASP.NET Core may be confusing due to several implementation choices. We can make the n...

• 04 Feb 2021

  Avoid Duplicating Code by Using ASP.NET Core Filters

  Filter Attributes can be used to avoid code duplication in action methods and thus, follow the DRY principle. Probabl...

• 18 Jan 2021

  A Developer's Adventures of Code

  Have you tried the latest Advent of Code (25 small daily programming puzzles)? Solving programming puzzles can be use...

• 04 Jan 2021

  Should I Stay or Should I Go to .NET 5.0?

  Everyone in the .NET universe heard about the .NET 5.0 release. Some are excited and want to immediately migrate thei...

• 04 Dec 2020

  Create ASP.NET Core Middlewares for Reusable and Modular Code

  Do you want clean/thin API controllers, containing only the intended application code logic calls? Then it’s time to ...

• 04 Nov 2020

  ASP.NET Core Web API Fundamentals

  Are you new to ASP.NET Core? Read this article to understand ASP.NET Core fundamentals, including the program structu...

• 04 Oct 2020

  Create and Run a Hello World, CRUD Web API

  The time has come, let's build a simple "Hello, World!" REST Web API having dummy CRUD operations. We will investigat...

• 04 Sep 2020

  .NET, Core, Standard, Framework… Brain BSoD!

  Are you confused with all the different .NET terms, such as ".NET Core", ".NET Framework", ".NET Standard", 'ASP.NET"...

• 04 Aug 2020

  So... What is an API?

  You don’t need to know what an API is, only if you are a software developer. Maybe you are working in an environment ...

• 04 Jul 2020

  Welcome

  Hello, I am Ioannis (Giannis) Kyriakidis and I am a software engineer from Greece. In this post you will find more ab...