ASP.NET Core 2.2 – Options Validation Exploring the new validation feature when using the options pattern in ASP.NET Core.

If you find the information in this post useful and want to learn more about configuration and options, may I suggest viewing my new course on Pluralsight – “Using Configuration and Options in .NET Core and ASP.NET Core Apps“? I dive deeply into applying all of the features in your applications. I was listening to […]

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Running AWS DynamoDB Locally for .NET Core Developers Configuring an ASP.NET Core application to use a local DynamoDB Docker container

For a recent set of .NET Core based microservices I have found myself using AWS DynamoDB as a data store. I recently discovered that AWS provides (and have done for 5 years!) a local version of DynamoDB which is perfect for testing applications offline and without the need to set up actual DynamoDB tables in […]

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Working with Polly – Using the Context to Obtain the Retry Count for Diagnostics Exploring a basic use case the for Polly Context object to track diagnostic data

I’ve been using Polly for a number of years now. For the most part, my usage of the library has been to solve some quite basic problems; commonly to implement retry logic when calling external services for example. In this post, I want to explore a requirement I had when using Polly within a library […]

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