Reliable Database Connections and Commands with Polly
Network services can fail or become temporarily unreachable unexpectedly. This is especially true when running code on cloud providers like AWS or Azure and more often »
Ambient Context with Dapper
I think anyone who's ever written data access code has at some point explored the Unit-of-Work [https://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/unitOfWork.html] (UOW) pattern. This pattern »
Integrating JSend response format with your Web API
Update: This code is now available on GitHub [https://github.com/sakopov/WebApi.JSend] and NuGet [https://www.nuget.org/packages/WebApi.JSend]! If you landed »
Fixing FluentValidation quirks
FluentValidation [https://github.com/JeremySkinner/FluentValidation] is a fantastic validation library for MVC and Web API projects. I use it extensively and already blogged [http://sergeyakopov. »
RESTful validation with ASP.NET Web API and FluentValidation
Update: Check out a follow-up post [http://sergeyakopov.com/fixing-fluentvalidation-quirks] on FluentValidation and WebApi. I wanted to briefly talk about request validation in RESTful APIs today. »