We have an API that handles ~45k monthly requests that was, at times, responding strangely. I suspected it was related to the .NET Core service lifetimes.
The symptoms in question were that out of the blue, the API response body had a status code of 409 with a message of invalid user-provided values, however, the actual HTTP response status code was 200.
Continue readingPostman is a powerful tool for testing and working with APIs. In this blog post, I will describe some Postman tips for better API testing that I have used for quite some time and have helped tremendously.
Continue readingCalling an authenticated API from Next.js server side is a little different than calling it from the client side and concerning authentication cookies.
Continue readingWhether calling the external API costs money or mocking desired behavior to code specific business rules. Sometimes external APIs could be mocked during the development of services or APIs. I believe this is an important strategy in every developer’s toolbox.
Continue readingThis article will focus on handling custom exceptions for flow control on .NET with a global exception handler and return a problem details object.
Having said that. There are, for the most part, two schools of thought. One where it is OK to throw a (custom) exception to control flow. i.e. Throw a UserNotFoundException when a user is not found. The second is implementing the Result Pattern where you return a Success or an Error to control the flow. i.e. Result.UserNotFound.
I recently found Postman has built-in capability to run load (performance) testing. Some use cases to run load testing are identifying bottlenecks, latency, and failures on your API when calling at near production scale.
Continue readingWe need to configure CORS in .NET (or really in any other language) when an application’s front-end and back-end are being served from different domains, aka origins. And more than likely, during development, both the front-end and back-end will be running from different ports on localhost.
Continue readingThere are many great posts about implementing the Options Pattern .NET Core with IOptionsMonitor on the interwebs, but many fail to point out one “gotcha” when working with IOtionsMonitor to live reload settings.
I started working on the official “Getting started with GraphQL on ASP.NET Core and Hot Chocolate – Workshop” tutorial, but since the workshop is a bit outdated, it targets .NET 5 and an older version of Hot Chocolate. I am using the latest .NET 7 (at the time of this writing) and top-level statements. In this post, I will address the issues I ran into due to Hot Chocolate version changes from 11 to 13.
Continue readingIf you are still running Synology DSM 6 and are looking into migrating to Synology DSM 7, and one of the main Synology apps you use is Photo Station, there are some major changes in how Synology handles photo uploading in the new Synology Photos app.
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