From this benchmark, we are able to understand that Rust has consistent performance and is almost always faster than C# and Go. But that is to be expected as Rust runs on the metal. Between C# and Go the performance seems to be nuanced. As C# and Go seems to outperform each other in difference scenarios. 

In Defense of Lazy Loading

I don’t know how this happened but for the last couple years (at least), whenever I read an author who writes about ORMs, I often see a sentiment like this: “ORMs are fine, just make sure you disable this pesky feature called Lazy Loading”.

It’s like this feature is not even needed and only brings confusion and performance issues to everyone who chooses to use it. Well, as you may guess from the title of this article, I disagree with this point of view completely. 

Features

This library helps write code in more functional way. To get to know more about the principles behind it, check out the Applying Functional Principles in C# Pluralsight course. 

Readings and watchings 

Asp.Net Core Web API CRUD with Angular 16
In this .Net 7 tutorial, we have implemented CRUD operations in asp.net core web api with angular 16 using entity framework core and SQL server. 

a .NET Core CLI tool that retrieves metadata from a web service on a network location or from a WSDL file, and generates a WCF class containing client proxy methods that you can use to access the web service operations. 

What’s new?

Here’s a sampling of the great new features and improvements in ASP.NET Core for .NET 7:

• Servers and runtime
  • Rating limiting: Limit the rate of handled requests using flexible endpoint configuration and policies.
  • Output caching: Configure output caching to reduce to more efficiently handle request.
  • Request decompression: Accept requests with compressed content.
  • HTTP/3: Built-in support for HTTP/3, the latest HTTP version based on the new QUIC multiplexed transport protocol.
  • WebSockets over HTTP/2: Use WebSockets over HTTP/2 connections.
  • WebTransport (experimental): Create streams and data grams over HTTP/3 with experimental support for WebTransport.
• Minimal APIs
  • Endpoint filters: Use endpoint filters to run cross-cutting code before or after a route handler.
  • Typed results: Return strongly typed results from minimal APIs.
  • Route groups: Organize groups of endpoints with a common prefix
• gRPC
  • JSON transcoding: Expand the reach of your gRPC services by also exposing them as JSON-based APIs
  • OpenAPI with JSON transcoding (experimenal): Use experimental support for generating OpenAPI specs for your gRPC JSON transcoded services.
  • gRPC health checks: Report and check the health of gRPC server apps.
  • gRPC client AddCallCredentials : Create clients that send authorized requests using bearer tokens.
• SignalR
  • Client results: Return client results to the server in response to requests from the server.
• MVC
  • Nullable view and page models: Nullable page and view models are now supported to improve the experience when using null state checking.
• Blazor
  • Custom elements: Build standard HTML custom elements with Blazor to integrate Blazor components with any JavaScript-based app.
  • Handle location changing events: Intercept location changing events to create custom user experiences when navigating.
  • Bind after/get/set modifiers: Run async logic after data binding and independently control how data binding gets and sets the data.
  • Dynamic authentication requests: Create dynamic authentication requests at runtime with custom parameters to handle advanced authentication scenarios in Blazor WebAssembly apps.
  • Improved JavaScript interop on WebAssembly: Optimize JavaScript interop call when running on WebAssembly using the new [JSImport]/[JSExport] support.
  • WebAssembly SIMD & exception handling: Improve performance with .NET WebAssembly ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation using WebAssembly SIMD and exception handling support. 

Learn Minimal APIs in .NET 7
Learn how to build Minimal APIs in .NET 7 with hands-on course. By the end of the course, you will be able to build well-constructed Minimal API Endpoints using C#, .NET7, and Swagger.

⭐️ Contents ⭐️
⌨️ (0:00:00) Introduction
⌨️ (0:01:30) Topics Covered
⌨️ (0:02:47) Why Minimal API?
⌨️ (0:06:07) Create Project
⌨️ (0:07:57) Comparing Files Minimal vs Standard
⌨️ (0:11:05) Program file changes
⌨️ (0:13:50) Clean Program class file
⌨️ (0:16:02) API Basics
⌨️ (0:16:44) What is API?
⌨️ (0:21:11) Request and response
⌨️ (0:25:59) Request Object
⌨️ (0:30:12) Response Object
⌨️ (0:35:36) httpverb
⌨️ (0:40:38) Create First Endpoint
⌨️ (0:43:43) Return Types
⌨️ (0:46:15) Route Parameters
⌨️ (0:48:29) Create Coupon Model and Coupon Store
⌨️ (0:51:38) Get All Endpoint
⌨️ (0:53:09) Get Individual Coupon
⌨️ (0:55:19) Create Coupon
⌨️ (0:59:53) Name Endpoints
⌨️ (1:03:17) Products and Accepts in Minimal API
⌨️ (1:06:58) Dependency Injection in Minimal API
⌨️ (1:10:25) Add DTOs
⌨️ (1:13:56) AutoMapper and Dependency Injection
⌨️ (1:18:32) Fluent Validators
⌨️ (1:24:07) Async Endpoints
⌨️ (1:26:11) API Response
⌨️ (1:32:57) Assignment - Put and Delete
⌨️ (1:33:49) Assignment Solution - Put and Delete Endpoints 

Introducing QOI — the Quite OK Image format. It losslessly compresses RGB and RGBA images to a similar size of PNG, while offering a 20x-50x speedup in compression and 3x-4x speedup in decompression. All single-threaded, no SIMD. It's also stupidly simple.

Compared to stb_image and stb_image_write QOI offers 20x-50x faster encoding, 3x-4x faster decoding and 20% better compression. It's also stupidly simple and fits in about 300 lines of C.

benchmark results here 

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