Maarten Balliauw is a cloud and web development expert specializing in .NET, C#, Microsoft Azure, and application performance. Frequent international speaker and Head of Customer Success at Duende Software.
440 articles from this blog
Explains how ASP.NET Core integrates with React, Angular, and VueJS for SPA development, covering project structure, hot reload, and build processes.
Explains why Azure Functions with HTTP triggers are not ideal for building full web APIs and should be used for reactive, message-based logic instead.
A seasoned speaker and conference committee member explains the behind-the-scenes process of reviewing and selecting talks after a Call for Papers closes.
Building a reverse NuGet package search engine using Azure Functions and Azure Search to find packages by public type names.
A talk on building a serverless reverse package search for NuGet.org using Azure Functions and Azure Search, presented at NDC Oslo.
Two tech talks on rate limiting strategies and building a serverless search engine for NuGet.org using Azure Functions and Azure Search.
A conference talk exploring .NET memory management concepts, the Garbage Collector, hidden allocations, and profiling techniques.
Two tech talks from ConFoo Montreal: one on application request throttling strategies and another on the microservices architecture of JetBrains Rider IDE.
A talk exploring the microservices architecture and design decisions behind building the JetBrains Rider .NET IDE, including its reactive protocol.
Troubleshooting guide for resolving a silent error when launching ASP.NET Core applications in IIS Express during development.
A guide to writing unit tests that ensure ASP.NET MVC action methods have the ValidateAntiForgeryToken attribute, with tips for the ReSharper/Rider test runner.
Using ReSharper's Structural Search and Replace to find ASP.NET MVC action methods that need the ValidateAntiForgeryToken attribute for CSRF protection.
A guide for ASP.NET MVC Core developers on identifying and adding CSRF protection to an inherited codebase lacking security measures.
A talk recap on .NET's Garbage Collector, memory management concepts, hidden allocations, and performance profiling.
Explains how to register a service both as an interface and as its concrete type in ASP.NET Core's built-in dependency injection container.
A talk exploring strategies for implementing rate limiting and request throttling in web applications to handle user traffic and prevent abuse.
A deep dive into debugging a slow ASP.NET MVC request, tracing the root cause to HTTP chunked encoding and its performance implications.
A technical guide on setting up remote debugging for Node.js applications deployed on Azure App Service (Linux) using WebStorm and SSH tunneling.
A developer explains his decision to retire from the Microsoft MVP program due to a perceived conflict of interest with his work for JetBrains.
A guide on setting up and running Kotlin-based Azure Functions, exploring JVM support and using IntelliJ IDEA with Maven.
