Proto.Actor based API with OpenTracing monitoring

Actor model has been around for quite some time, and modern implementations like Akka and Orleans made the model even more popular. I wanted to try out the actor model for the first time and for the exercise have chosen a light-weight and little bit less known implementation — Proto.Actor. In this blog post I will go through a naive RESTful API based on Proto.Actor and will leverage it’s Jaeger OpenTracing plugin for monitoring.

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Blockchain in .NET Core with Microsoft SQL

In recent years blockchain became another buzzword sharing the fame with BitCoin. Blockchain solves certain technical problems, and could be implemented quite easily. In this blog post I will dive deeper into what blockchain is and how it works by going through a little technical exercise I’ve created.

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Multipart Content-Type request results in IOException

Recently I’ve run into an ASP.NET Core MVC bug when an HTTP request with multipart content-type and empty body would cause an unhanded IOException exception to be thrown in MVC framework. However, when sending an invalid request I’d expect to receive a 400 error response code.

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