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Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft. Views are my own.

Simplifying software engineering concepts and helping you level up as a C# and dotnet developer!

API Gateways in Zuplo – Creating an ASCII Art API

Apr 24, 202413 min read

I was approached by Adrian Machado, an employee at Zuplo, for a problem I didn’t even know I had — yet. When I jumped on the call with him to walk...

API Gateways in Zuplo – Creating an ASCII Art API

API Key Authentication Middleware In ASP NET Core – A How To Guide

Apr 23, 20246 min read

While putting some special content together, I found myself needing to integrate API key authentication middleware into my ASP.NET Core application....

API Key Authentication Middleware In ASP NET Core – A How To Guide

8 Things I Wish I Understood Earlier In My Career

Apr 22, 20245 min read

Our lives and careers are journeys, so we should expect that we’ll be learning for the duration we’re on this planet. As long as we’re moving forward...

8 Things I Wish I Understood Earlier In My Career

C# Regular Expression Benchmarks – How To Avoid My Mistakes!

Apr 16, 202410 min read

Recently I published an article about the various performance characteristics of using regex in C#. Specifically, there are a handful of ways that we...

C# Regular Expression Benchmarks – How To Avoid My Mistakes!

C# Regex Performance: How To Squeeze Out Performance

Apr 15, 20248 min read

Regular expressions in C# can save you when you need to do some complex pattern matching on strings. But as the language grows and evolves we continue...

C# Regex Performance: How To Squeeze Out Performance

Examples of Composition in C# – A Simple Guide for Beginners

Apr 12, 202412 min read

In software engineering, composition plays an important role in object-oriented programming. If you’ve come across other articles or videos I’ve put...

Examples of Composition in C# – A Simple Guide for Beginners