Absolute cache expiry corrupts absolutely?
Should you specify absolute expiry of a cache item from the current time or from the current time in the UTC time zone? The answer may not be what you expect.…
Posts tagged with c#
LazyCache 2.0 released
LazyCache [https://github.com/alastairtree/LazyCache] is a library that makes it easy for developers to add in-memory caching to dotnet apps. Version 2 is a major rewrite to change from the .Net Framework 4.…
Stubbing your way to automated end to end testing in an API first world
Building high quality end to end acceptance tests suites is hard, and creating API stubs (aka mock servers) can be surprisingly time consuming. WireMock.net [https://github.com/WireMock-Net/WireMock.Net] can help speed this…
Implementing the retry pattern in c sharp using Polly
This post is the third and final installment on the retry pattern following on from implementing a simple retry pattern in c# [https://alastaircrabtree.com/implementing-a-simple-retry-pattern-in-c/] and the retry pattern for async tasks [https://alastaircrabtree.…
Implementing the retry pattern for async tasks in c#
This post is a follow on from Implementing a simple retry pattern in c# [https://alastaircrabtree.com/implementing-a-simple-retry-pattern-in-c/]. Tasks, async and await are rapidly becoming be default API flavours in many dotnet libraries and the…