How I set OpenAI API usage limits to stop agent overspending and other AI billing nightmares

OpenAI API costs can spiral when agents run wild. Here's how to set spend limits, enable hard caps, and avoid surprise AI ...

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How to measure API performance in ASP.NET Core

Take advantage of MethodTimer.Fody to measure the execution speed of your APIs and keep your ASP.NET Core applications running smoothly. In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, let’s not kid ...
InfoWorld

How to improve API security in ASP.NET Core

Take advantage of authentication and authorization, API keys, rate limiting, CORS, API versioning, and other recommended practices to build secure and robust APIs in ASP.NET Core. Because our APIs ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Intros Native AOT for ASP.NET Core

In the new .NET 8 Preview 3, Microsoft introduced initial support for native Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation in the framework's web-dev component, ASP.NET Core. While choosing the AOT publishing ...
InfoQ

Plugin Framework for .NET

The plugin framework is a NuGet package that allows you to customise and extend a .NET application Plugins are loaded at runtime from a catalogue which can be a local source or via NuGet. Supports all ...
Visual Studio Magazine

In-Memory ASP.NET Core Integration Tests with TestServer

Test, test and test again. You can automate those tests with a TestServer-based Web app that doesn't even touch the Web server. With the advent of ASP.NET Core comes additional automated testing ...