/ Notes from my R&D days. 2026-04-02T14:49:50+02:00 Neil Boyd / Jekyll © 2026 Neil Boyd /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-04-02T00:00:00+02:00 2026-04-02T00:00:00+02:00 /posts/2026-04-02/ Neil Boyd

Solving the Distributed Cache Invalidation Problem with Redis and HybridCache How to use Redis pub/sub to invalidate the cache across multiple instances of an application using HybridCache. They also mention that you could use FusionCache to do it all for you. Cleaner switch expressions with pattern matching in C# Example: return environment.ToLower() switch { "dev" => dev...

2026-02-23T00:00:00+01:00 2026-02-23T00:00:00+01:00 /posts/2026-02-23/ Neil Boyd

Web Components Are the Comeback Nobody Saw Coming When Web Components were first introduced, browser support was a bit spotty, and developers were keen to use the latest framework. Now, developers are getting tired of the complexity of frameworks, and Web Components are fully supported in all major browsers, so they are making a comeback. Why Developers Are Ditching Frameworks for Vanilla Jav...

2025-12-23T00:00:00+01:00 2025-12-23T00:00:00+01:00 /posts/2025-12-23/ Neil Boyd

No More Mocking ILogger Instead of mocking ILogger use the FakeLogger class from the Microsoft.Extensions.Diagnostics.Testing package. It doesn’t help us, sadly, because we use Serilog. GitHub MCP Registry Offers a Central Hub for Discovering and Deploying MCP Servers Lots of MCP models to plug in to wherever you use them. Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews Don’t just...

2025-10-16T00:00:00+02:00 2025-10-16T00:00:00+02:00 /posts/azure-dev-summit-workshop/ Neil Boyd

Azure Dev Summit Workshop TL;DR: Summary The last day of Azure Dev Summit was a workshop: Enhance your Application System with .NET Aspire. Workshop Resources The workshop provided several useful resources for learning and implementing .NET Aspire: Previous workshop recording on YouTube Workshop code and documentation on GitHub Aspire and Playwright integration example Official ...

2025-10-13T00:00:00+02:00 2025-10-13T00:00:00+02:00 /posts/azure-dev-summit/ Neil Boyd

Azure Dev Summit The first ever Azure Dev Summit. 13-15 October 2025, Lisbon, Portugal. TL;DR: Summary Day 1 Keynote: Reimagining the software development lifecycle with agentic AI The keynote introduced the concept of agentic AI for development, which represents a significant evolution from traditional development tools. This new paradigm includes intent recognition, context awareness, ...