Steven Giesel is a Senior Software Engineer and Microsoft MVP with over 13 years of experience, specializing in .NET and modern backend development. He shares deep technical knowledge across topics such as C#, EF Core, RavenDB, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures, and is an active speaker in the .NET community.
311 articles from this blog
Advanced techniques and best practices for optimizing performance in Blazor applications, covering virtualization, lazy loading, and AOT compilation.
Explains memory management in C#, covering the Heap, Stack, and the performance implications of boxing and unboxing operations.
Explains Blazor app prerendering, its benefits for SEO and user experience, and how to implement it with practical tips.
Performance analysis comparing different methods for equality checks on C# enums, revealing the significant speed advantage of the == operator.
A tutorial on implementing component virtualization in Blazor to improve performance by rendering only visible UI elements.
Explains the C# yield keyword and generator functions, demonstrating lazy evaluation with code examples comparing IEnumerable and List.
Explains the differences between Task and ValueTask in C#, including use cases, performance benefits, and potential pitfalls for async programming.
Explains how Singleton, Scoped, and Transient service lifetimes behave differently in Blazor WebAssembly client apps versus Blazor Server apps.
Explains CPU branch prediction using a railroad analogy, detailing how predictable conditional statements (if/else) can significantly improve performance.
A tutorial on using the ILGPU library to perform GPU-accelerated matrix multiplication in C#, comparing performance with a naive CPU implementation.
Explores C# .NET 6 preview features enabling static abstract members in interfaces, focusing on generic math and parsable contracts.
A guide to implementing a type-safe, feature-rich alternative to C#'s built-in enum, addressing its common shortcomings.
A guide to using a Git hook to automatically prefix commit messages with JIRA ticket numbers from branch names.
A guide to implementing and managing API versioning in ASP.NET Core, covering setup, benefits, and practical examples.
A guide to creating and using Git aliases to streamline common version control commands and improve workflow efficiency.
Explains the key differences between IEnumerable and IQueryable in C#/.NET, focusing on in-memory vs. remote query execution.
A guide to using git bisect for efficient bug hunting by performing a binary search through commit history to find the first broken commit.
A guide explaining how to use the `git rebase --onto` command to move a feature branch's commits from one base branch to another.
Explores Creational Design Patterns in C#, focusing on the Factory and Fluent Builder patterns with practical code examples.
Analyzes C# struct equality performance, comparing default structs, IEquatable implementations, and C# 10 record structs.
