Why this question keeps coming up Sooner or later, every team building more than one service asks: “How do these services talk to each other without being glued together?” The usual answer is a message broker, and then the argument starts. Someone says Kafka, someone says RabbitMQ, and the Azure person on the team says … Read more
Reading time: about 10 minutes The problem Kafka solves Picture a small online store. A customer clicks “Place Order,” and the Order service has to: The first version is usually the obvious one: the Order service calls each of these directly. It works, until the email provider has a slow afternoon and checkout starts timing … Read more
A Friendly Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Developers 👋 Hey there, fellow developer! Ever felt like you’re reinventing the wheel every time you write code? Or maybe you’ve looked at a senior developer’s code and wondered, “How did they know to structure it that way?” The secret sauce? Design Patterns! Let’s break this down in a … Read more
In modern web application development, scalability and efficient resource utilization are key. ASP.NET Core gives us powerful tools to build high-throughput servers, and one of the most impactful features for performance is asynchronous programming using async and await. In this article, we will explore how async/await works specifically with the ThreadPool in ASP.NET Core and … Read more