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    Creating the auto-assign-issues bot

    Creating my first GitHub app with Probot - Part 2

    In this post I describe the code in the Probot templates, show how to modify it to auto-assign issues to users, and show how to add config to GitHub apps…

     in  GitHub Node.js
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    Creating a GitHub app with create-probot-app

    Creating my first GitHub app with Probot - Part 1

    In this post I describe why I decided to create a GitHub app, and how I built and tested a Hello World app using Probot and create-probot-app…

     in  GitHub Node.js
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    An introduction to ASP.NET Core Razor Pages

    In this post I provide an introduction to Razor Pages, the basics of getting started, and how Razor Pages differs from MVC…

     in  ASP.NET Core Razor Razor Pages
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    Reducing initial request latency by pre-building services in a startup task in ASP.NET Core

    In this post I show a startup task that pre-builds all the services registered in the DI container to reduce the duration of the first request to the app.…

     in  ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection
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    Using health checks to run async tasks in ASP.NET Core

    Running async tasks on app startup in ASP.NET Core - Part 4

    In this post I describe an approach to running tasks on startup that uses IHostedService to run the tasks and exposes their status using health checks…

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    Feedback on async task examples and another possible solution

    Running async tasks on app startup in ASP.NET Core - Part 3

    In this post I discuss some feedback on my previous posts about running async tasks on startup, including why database migrations were a poor example…

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