There are various reasons why it is useful to channel certain requests through your own application to an external endpoint; the most obvious is, for example, as a workaround for client statistics from browser adblockers …
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Rate Limit is a great tool to protect your own website and content from misuse; in some cases, however, rate limiting is also bad: for example, if you want your own content to be indexed by Google Search in order to …
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There are many ways to remove spaces or other characters in a string - there are just very big differences in terms of performance and efficiency.
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Code formatting is a very important element when developers work together on a project - and you are always well advised not to invent your own formatting rules, but to use those that are a standard or de facto standard …
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Sustainable Code is a constantly growing GitHub repository created by me , in which I collect various everyday code snippets and measure the performance of the different implementation ways. The goal is to create a …
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A popular unit test - and also a necessary test - is the correct registration of interfaces and their implementation with dependency injection. And a common mistake is that the associated IServiceCollection interface is …
Read Blog PostWhen working with ZIP files in .NET, there may be cases where the file is not stored on disk but comes directly as a Stream. This could happen if you’re downloading the ZIP file from a network, receiving it via an API or …
Read Blog PostWorking with compressed files is common in many applications, whether you’re extracting data from an archive, installing software packages or retrieving bundled files. Thankfully, .NET finally provides an efficient, …
Read Blog PostWhen working with .NET apps you may sometimes need to bundle multiple files into a single compressed archive for easier storage, transfer or processing. In this post, I’ll show you a simple and effective way to compress …
Read Blog PostIn C# (.NET 6 and above), there is now a very simple way to read out the CPU load with minimal overhead - i.e. without threads. The PerformanceCounter from the System.Diagnostics namespace helps us with this.
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