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Most ASP.NET Core developers think about HTTP requests in terms of controllers, minimal APIs, or middleware. Very few think about Kestrel. When production issues show up a, the root cause often lives below the abstraction boundary. Not in your endpoi...

When deploying ASP.NET Core applications, developers often face confusion around hosting models—specifically, the difference between In-Process and Out-of-Process hosting. These models determine how your app interacts with the web server, and choosi...

I've continuously sought effective solutions for building high performance applications. Among the various technologies I've worked with, Kestrel and YARP have emerged as powerful tools, particularly when optimising network performance and scalabilit...

Photo by NASA on Unsplash This article was originally published on Medium in December 2024.I am archiving it here to consolidate my engineering notes. Background Not long ago, I found myself observing an after-hours debugging session at the office....
