Posts

With CockroachDB and Postgres, combining the SELECT FOR UPDATE and SKIP LOCKED statements can help you handle concurrent access to the same table.

It’s not a problem to use Postgres C# and .NET. You can also use Entity Framework.

A simple example of running Postgres in Docker with a password set, and a port exposed.

This is a simple example of running a hosted service in a console application. You might want to do this if you need to run a background task in a console application.

Adding a background service to Web API is easy to do, here’s how. (Not saying you should do this!)

In a previous post I showed how to run CockroachDB locally using Docker, but there is an even easier way - run the executable for your operating system.

Getting the name of a method from a task is not trivial, but this post will show you how to do it and includes an extension method for you to use.

Using CockroachDb with Entity Framework is easy, here is a simple post showing how.

This post shows how to use a Dockerfile to start CockroachDB in single user mode.

In the new Polly version, the rate limiter has replaced bulkhead isolation. This post shows how to use the rate limiter.