Protecting Your APIs with Rate Limiting in ASP.NET
Learn how to protect your ASP.NET Core APIs from DDOS abuse with built-in rate limiting in .NET 7+. Explore fixed window, sliding window, token bucket, and concurrency strategies, with code examples, benchmarks, and real-world best practices to keep your services secure and reliable.
Bash Tips & Tricks - Advanced
Unlock advanced Linux command-line tips and tricks: automate responses with yes, create and manage directories efficiently, using loops, inspect open files and network connections using lsof, and more expert-level CLI techniques.
Bash Tips & Tricks - The Basics
Tips & Tricks for the Linux Bash from Beginner to Master. Quick Linux command-line tips to search log files, count connection errors, compare files, check PostgreSQL status, manage file permissions using chmod, and monitor system usage and more.
Comparison of API Technologies
Comprehensive comparison of REST, GraphQL, and gRPC for C# .NET developers. Explore pros, cons, use cases, tooling, and real-world advice.
C# using a Local Language Model with LM Studio to Sort Screenshots
Learn how to use a local language model with C# and LM Studio to automatically sort screenshots into categories using AI and Vision Language Models (VLM). Utilize the power of visual recognition with .NET!
Smarter APIs with GraphQL
While REST is not going away anytime soon and remains perfectly suited for many use cases, GraphQL offers significant advantages for applications where flexibility, efficiency, and rapid development cycles are critical. By enabling more precise data fetching, reducing the number of network requests, and improving the overall developer experience, GraphQL is helping to shape the future of API development.
Follow this step by step guide to setup your first GraphQL Client and Server in C# with .NET!
Handling Large Files: BufferedStream vs LINQ's Chunk method
The choice between using BufferedStream and the LINQ Chunk extension method for operating with very large files depends on your specific use case and requirements. Here we discuss the pros and cons for each.
LLM Temperature Explained
Temperature is a key parameter in large language models (LLMs) that controls the randomness of generated text. It adjusts the probability distribution used when predicting the next token in a sequence. A lower temperature makes the model more deterministic, favoring highly probable tokens and producing more consistent, coherent outputs — ideal for factual or technical tasks. A higher temperature increases randomness by allowing the selection of less probable tokens, leading to more varied and creative responses, though sometimes at the cost of coherence.
AI Tools Are Hallucinating Software Dependencies – And Cybercriminals Are Taking Advantage
Discover how AI-generated code from large language models (LLMs) is introducing new cybersecurity risks through hallucinated software dependencies and slopsquatting. Learn how attackers exploit these vulnerabilities and what developers can do to stay safe.
Locale Functions and Clean Code Principles
Local functions are methods of a type that are nested in another member. They can only be called from their containing member. Local functions provide a clean way to organize code while potentially improving performance and maintaining better encapsulation. Local functions should enhance readability and performance without violating Clean Code Principles. If they make the code harder to understand or maintain, that's a sign they should be refactored into regular methods.