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.NET Channels as a In-Memory Message Bus – Beware!

If you’re looking at using .NET Channels as a replacement for a MediatR, or if you’re not in .NET but searching for an in-memory producer-consumer API, hang on a second—because you might be in for a pile of pain. That’s not actually what you want. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Channels in .NET: A Simple Example Let me give you a really simple example of channels in C#. If you’re not using .NET, you’ll totally understand the gist of this because it’s pretty… Read More ».NET Channels as a In-Memory Message Bus – Beware!

Sponsor: Using RabbitMQ or Azure Service Bus in your .NET systems? Well, you could just use their SDKs and roll your own serialization, routing, outbox, retries, and telemetry. I mean, seriously, how hard could it be?

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5 Mistakes That Make Your Code Unmaintainable

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You DON’T Need Microservices for Serverless! 

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