WebApi

Caches are usually used to store concrete values, but with C# you can store tasks for work you want to perform only once, at the time the key is first requested from the cache.

If you run a full ASP.NET Web API application in AWS Lambda function, here is a way to warm up many execution environments ahead of time to reduce cold starts.

Every couple of years I have to solve a CORS error with some API I’ve written, each time I have to figure it all out again. This is a blog to my future self with the answers.

This post shows how to use Polly with .NET 6 if you are taking advantage of top-level statements, minimal API endpoints, and the HttpClientFactory.

This post shows how to use Polly with .NET 6 if you are taking advantage of top-level statements and minimal API endpoints.

This post shows how to use Polly with .NET 6; injecting a HttpClientFactory with a Retry policy into a controller.

This post shows how to use Polly with .NET 6 if you are taking advantage of top-level statements.

There are times when firing off the same query in parallel to two or more data stores is a good choice, but normally hitting one, waiting for the response, and only hitting the second if necessary is a better approach. Here I’ll show how to query Redis, and if the key is missing, query MS SQL.

There are times when firing off the same query in parallel to two or more data stores is a good choice, keeping the first response, and canceling the other requests. Here I show how a achieve that even if the Task<> types are different.

A simple Web API application using Redis.