Technical insights on .NET, Azure, and modern software development
As I've been going on the road to talk about background services within the .NET ecosystem, one of my favorites has HangFire. I've been using HangFire in my applications for years, and it's been a vital tool for offloading some of the heavy lifting from my web applications.
Read MoreIn preparation for my latest talk on Tactics for Building Background Services in .NET, I've been working on a sample project to demonstrate the concepts. It's amazing how much easier it is to build Window Services today than it used to be!
Read MoreI have an obsession with vanity metrics. They're not supposed to be useful, but I think there is an excellent arguement for tracking them.
Read MoreOur team with one product grew to include two new teams. This meant more people, larger tech stack, and more complexity when it came to support and future growth.
Read MoreIn 2021, I released SignalR Mastery on Udemy. After the first year, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on my journey of building and releasing the course.
Read MoreI knew that I wanted to move this application to .NET 6, as it would be the new LTS version, and I was foregoing several dependency updates. In particular, there was one dependency that was still based on .NET Framework that was giving me concern. It never made the jump to .NET Standard, so I worried about future compatibility.
Read MoreIn this post, I discuss how I was able to 'stream' an MP4 LIVE to YouTube and Twitch using FFMPEG
Read MoreKevin, I have two clients. Client 1 sends a message to client 2. Client 1 loses its connection to the server. Client 2, during this time, sends a message to Client 1. That message is lost because Client 1 was disconnected. How can we solve this problem?
Read MoreRecently, I updated a client application to the latest versions of SignalR (including the NPM module). One of our users uses a SmartTV to view the page, and it stopped working due to 'AbortController is Undefined'.
Read MoreRecently, I've been building a handful of Azure Logic Apps that work with Stripe webhooks and I've need to convert Epoch DATETIME into a more useful format.
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