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Keycloak Tutorial for .NET Developers
Read time: 15 minutes In one of my recent newsletters, I claimed OpenID Connect (OIDC) is the right way to configure authentication and authorization for your ASP.NET Core apps. No need to reinvent...
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Deploy Smarter, Not Harder with Containers
Read time: 7 minutes A few days ago I was chatting with a good friend about the project he’s working on at Microsoft, which turns out to be all about the backend side of a popular product used by...
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Shrink Your .NET Containers, Boost Your Deployments
Read time: 5 minutes One of the reasons why containers are so popular for deploying any kind of backend application is the ability to go from zero to fully deployed in just a few seconds, as opposed...
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Multi-Provider Authentication in ASP.NET Core: Keycloak + Entra ID
Read time: 6 minutes Gone are the days when you created Web applications that only offered the option to register and log in with a user and password combination, backed by a local Users database....
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Zero-Cost Resilience For .NET Apps In Azure
Read time: 7 minutes A few days ago, I was getting ready to test my latest ASP.NET Core app in the cloud when I remembered I still needed a good way to deal with unreliable Azure dependencies. My app...
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4 Ways To Get Free Azure Credits
Read time: 6 minutes A common question I get from devs who are getting started with Microsoft Azure is how to get free access to create and test Azure resources, especially for learning purposes....
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From 1.5s to 126ms: How Azure Front Door CDN Speeds Up Image Loading
Read time: 5 minutes Have you ever landed on a website filled with images and spent the last several seconds patiently waiting for those images to finish loading in your browser? This actually...
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Zero-Code Full-Stack Development with AI, .NET and React
Read time: 8 minutes Vibe coding is an AI programming technique in which you describe a problem in natural language to an AI assistant (a large language model), and it builds the software for you....
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The Easiest Way To Deploy Your ASP.NET Core App To Azure
Read time: 7 minutes A few months ago, I needed to deploy a small ASP.NET Core API to Azure—fast. But I quickly realized how confusing it can be, especially for newcomers. Azure offers a lot of...
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Azure Key Vault Tutorial For .NET Developers
Read time: 6 minutes Today I’ll show you how to properly secure and access your .NET application secrets via Azure Key Vault. You probably know you shouldn’t be storing API keys, connection strings,...
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You Don’t Need MediatR
Read time: 6 minutes Jimmy Bogard, the creator of MediatR, recently announced that the library is going commercial. Instead of panicking, I think it’s the perfect time to ask yourself if you even...
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Go Passwordless with ASP.NET Core + Azure PostgreSQL
Read time: 7 minutes If you’re building secure, cloud-native ASP.NET Core applications, there’s a good chance your database connection string still includes a password. You may be storing it in Azure...
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Diagnosing JWT Failures in ASP.NET Core the Right Way
Read time: 5 minutes A few days ago, while recording my latest YouTube video, I kept hitting 403 errors when calling my .NET API from Postman—even though I was passing what looked like a valid access...
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Building My Own Payments API with .NET and Stripe
Read time: 5 minutes A few days ago, during a key 3-day enrollment window for the .NET Academy All-Access Pass, a number of customers encountered a critical error on the Thinkific checkout page:...
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How to Seed Data with EF Core 9 and .NET Aspire
Read time: 5 minutes A few days ago, I was updating a .NET Aspire worker app that needed to seed some data on startup—just basic game genres like “Fighting” and “Roleplaying.” EF Core 9 now makes...
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How to Migrate from Docker Compose to .NET Aspire
Read time: 7 minutes If you’ve ever set up containers for your .NET app with Docker Compose, you know the routine: Write some YAML, expose a few ports, map a volume, fiddle with environment...
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Build a System, Not an App
Read time: 6 minutes You’re probably thinking about your app in terms of projects—your .NET API, your React or Angular frontend, maybe a worker or two. But let me challenge that mindset. You’re not...
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