Ivano Scifoni

Lesser-known C# features that can simplify your code

Walks through concrete C# examples of records with value equality like a Coordinate type, the null-coalescing operator, tuple deconstruction for methods such as GenerateEmailContent, global usings...

Rejigs: Making Regular Expressions Human-Readable

Regular expressions are powerful, but let’s be honest — they’re also notoriously difficult to read and maintain. What does…

Kafka and .NET: Practical Guide to Building Event-Driven Services

Explore how to effectively build event-driven services using Kafka and .NET. Set up producers, consumers and idempotency easily.

Debug Distributed Systems in Minutes Using .NET Aspire

Lesser-known C# features that can simplify your code

Walks through concrete C# examples of records with value equality like a Coordinate type, the null-coalescing operator, tuple deconstruction for methods such as GenerateEmailContent, global usings...

Rejigs: Making Regular Expressions Human-Readable

Regular expressions are powerful, but let’s be honest — they’re also notoriously difficult to read and maintain. What does…

Kafka and .NET: Practical Guide to Building Event-Driven Services

Explore how to effectively build event-driven services using Kafka and .NET. Set up producers, consumers and idempotency easily.

Debug Distributed Systems in Minutes Using .NET Aspire

Aspire Quick Tip - Managing Container & Data Lifetime - .NET Blog

Aspire 9 adds new control over the lifetime of containers on your local developer environment. Let's look at how to manage them with the new APIs!

Unit Testing Clean Architecture Use Cases

A project I worked on required code coverage above 90%, which taught me that coverage is a starting point and not a measure of test quality.

EF Core 9 vs. Dapper: Performance Face-Off - Trailhead Technology Partners

A detailed comparison of Dapper and Entity Framework Core 9's performance in common tasks like retrieving, inserting, and updating records

Exploring Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData with Qdrant and Azure AI Search - .NET Blog

Discover how to use Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData to implement semantic search using Qdrant and Azure AI Search

Aspire Quick Tip - Managing Container & Data Lifetime - .NET Blog

Aspire 9 adds new control over the lifetime of containers on your local developer environment. Let's look at how to manage them with the new APIs!

EF Core 9 vs. Dapper: Performance Face-Off - Trailhead Technology Partners

A detailed comparison of Dapper and Entity Framework Core 9's performance in common tasks like retrieving, inserting, and updating records

Exploring Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData with Qdrant and Azure AI Search - .NET Blog

Discover how to use Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData to implement semantic search using Qdrant and Azure AI Search

Unit Testing Clean Architecture Use Cases

A project I worked on required code coverage above 90%, which taught me that coverage is a starting point and not a measure of test quality.

Using Dependabot to Manage .NET SDK Updates - .NET Blog

Learn how to use Dependabot to keep your .NET SDK version up to date with the latest security patches and improvements.