.NET

Bugs That Return 200 OK

The expensive bugs in a line-of-business ASP.NET Core app were never the ones that threw. They were plausible, wrong results: filters that silently did nothing, a redirect loop born from two different counts, an error raised at a severity nobody hears. Every fix was the same move — make the silence loud.

CancellationToken Is a Performance Feature, Not Error Handling

Why I thread a CancellationToken through every async layer of my ASP.NET Core applications — what it actually frees up, how timeouts and shutdown collapse into the same mechanism, and the four ways I've seen it silently do nothing.

IMemoryCache in ASP.NET Core: Where to Put It, and Why It Matters

A practical guide to implementing IMemoryCache in an ASP.NET Core MVC application following clean architecture principles — with real numbers from a production codebase.