In today’s article, I will show you how to host your website on DigitalOcean’s clouding host ($100 free credit) using Docker containers and Nginx reverse proxy. Configure Docker for ASP.NET Core What is Docker? The containers permit to isolate the application resources, allowing at the same time the sharing of the server resources. There are similar to virtual machines but instead … Read more
What are SQL Indexes? Indexes are used to help the SQL engine to identify faster the required data. There are associated with the data from the tables or the views. If you don’t have indexes on your columns that you use in the WHERE clause, then the database server has to query the entire table. For instance, you have a … Read more
NLog is a C# library used for logging. It is highly configurable, used by many projects. It supports by default various destinations for logs. I recommend using the NLog or Serilog. These two libraries are very similar and they have the most number of destinations already implemented. NLog configuration The configuration is built on three major properties: Target property sets … Read more
When I learned to program, my professor told me that the String class is immutable. That means you cannot change the memory of that string. A new memory allocation happens whenever you try to modify a string. Use StringBuilder instead of String operators When I was a junior programmer, I used string operators whenever I needed to concatenate two strings. … Read more
What is a WebP image? WebP is a new format for images developed by Google, which offers more efficient compression rates (up to 34% smaller) than the old formats like PNG and JPEG. Most websites load many big images. The speed of the website is slow. As a result, the traffic is impacted. All of my websites use this format … Read more