LK DevConf 2020: Building for the Cloud-Native Era

Last weekend I presented at LK DevConf 2020 in Letterkenny. The theme this year was cloud-native development, and the energy was incredible. My Session: Kubernetes for .NET Developers I showed how to take a .NET Core application from local development to production on Kubernetes: Dockerfile best practices for .NET Kubernetes manifests and Helm charts Health […]

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GitHub Actions for .NET: Complete CI/CD Guide

GitHub Actions has rapidly matured since its 2019 launch. For .NET developers, it offers a distinct advantage over Azure DevOps: the workflow lives right next to the code, and the marketplace for actions is exploding. This guide shows how to build a robust CI/CD pipeline for a .NET Core 3.1 Web API, including unit testing, […]

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Blazor WebAssembly Preview: Building Production-Ready SPAs with C# and .NET

Blazor WebAssembly represents Microsoft’s bold vision for web development: write client-side applications in C# instead of JavaScript, running directly in the browser via WebAssembly. In early 2020, with the preview maturing rapidly, enterprises began evaluating Blazor for production scenarios. This comprehensive guide explores architecture patterns, performance optimization, and real-world deployment strategies for Blazor WebAssembly applications. […]

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Clean Architecture in .NET: Practical Implementation

Clean Architecture keeps your business logic independent of frameworks and databases. Here’s how I implement it in .NET projects. The Layers Domain: Entities, value objects, domain events Application: Use cases, interfaces, DTOs Infrastructure: Database, external services WebAPI: Controllers, middleware Project Structure Dependency Rule Dependencies point inward. Domain has no dependencies. Application depends on Domain. Infrastructure […]

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