Managing configuration in .NET applications can become a tangled mess if not approached thoughtfully. If you’ve ever worked with appsettings.json or passed configuration values manually across your codebase, you’ve likely encountered issues like scattered string keys, typo-prone lookups, and challenges in testing configuration-dependent code. These problems can make your application brittle and difficult to maintain.
What we’re doing today (and why) Yesterday (Day 1) we stood up two endpoints: Today we’ll refactor the project so those endpoints (and every new one we add) remain clean, readable, testable, and easy to evolve. No new business features yet — we’re investing in structure. Senior teams do this early to avoid “giant Program.cs”
What we will build today (and why) Today we lay the cornerstone of the entire book: two REST endpoints for our Task resource. This sounds simple, but it’s where many APIs drift from REST and become hard to evolve. We’ll keep endpoints predictable, stateless, and correctly modeled so everything we add later (EF Core, JWT,
Abstract This document provides a thorough examination of an end-to-end cryptographic middleware designed for ASP.NET Core applications. The middleware facilitates secure message exchange between a client and a server by enforcing transport-layer security (HTTPS), verifying digital signatures, encrypting and decrypting request/response payloads at the application level, and preventing replay attacks via a nonce system stored
Abstract In the realm of distributed systems and infrastructure engineering, achieving high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability is essential for maintaining operational continuity. This whitepaper provides an in-depth exploration of eliminating single points of failure (SPOFs), integrating foundational concepts such as SPOF architectures versus redundant designs, synchronous versus asynchronous replication, chaos testing workflows, and multi-region