Retool is the fast way to build internal tools

Retool is the fast way to build internal tools. Visually design apps that interface with any database or API. Switch to code nearly anywhere to customize how your apps look and work. With Retool, you ship more apps and move your business forward—all in less time.

What is the cost of casting in C#?

As I was (at that moment) running out of ideas about optimizations in hot paths in FbNetExternalEngine, I turned my attention into other parts of code. And one piece that was doing casting on every call caught my attention. Could I make the casting faster? What is actually the cost of casting? Does it matter? I had to dive into it.

Announcing ImageSharp 2.0.0

We've been putting this release together for a while but it's been well worth the wait. This is a MASSIVE release with some fantastic improvements.

Configuring Open Telemetry tracing for ASP.NET Core

Configuring tracing in Open Telemetry for ASP.NET Core can be a fairly simple process but never accept the defaults! There is always more we can do to make improvements.

Measuring performance after migration from .NET5 to .NET 6

We will discuss why we continuously strive to upgrade our application’s platform. Here we tell you what we achieved with migration to .NET 6 in terms of performance and try to evaluate our results practically.

Minimal APIs in .NET 6 — A complete guide

.NET 6 was released last week and it’s being branded as “The Fastest .NET” yet by Microsoft. It comes with a lot of exciting new features, language and performance improvements. It’s the first LTS release since .NET Core 3.1 and will be supported for three years.