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Masasi Arai

Solutions Architect | Developer | Blogger

How to Install and Configure EF Core in .NET 9 Projects

If you’re reading this, chances are you’re either just starting with Entity Framework Core or you’re moving an older project to .NET 9 and want…

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  • Assi Arai
  • July 2, 2025

Getting Started with Entity Framework Core: From Zero to Working DbContext

When I first worked on an internal reporting tool for our financial system, I was greeted by thousands of lines of raw ADO.NET, SqlCommand, DataReader,…

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  • Assi Arai
  • June 22, 2025

FluentValidation with Blazor WebAssembly: Making Validation Less Painful

Not too long ago, I wrote a blog post titled Getting Started with FluentValidation, where I focused more on how to use FluentValidation in the…

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  • Assi Arai
  • June 7, 2025

CQRS with MediatR in ASP.NET Core: Clean Separation of Concerns

Hi there! If you’ve been building ASP.NET Core applications for a while, like I have, you probably reached a point where you started asking yourself:…

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  • Assi Arai
  • June 1, 2025

Working with SignalR in .NET Core

Hi! In this post, I’ll share how we used SignalR in .NET Core to build a real-time API Health Check Dashboard, something we actually deployed,…

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  • Assi Arai
  • May 25, 2025

Async Programming in .NET: Best Practices

I still remember one of my early projects using .NET. It was a service integration task, I had to call an external API to retrieve…

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  • Assi Arai
  • May 18, 2025

Stop Over Engineering Your DTO Mapping in .NET

In my earlier projects, I always reached for third-party libraries whenever I needed to map domain models to DTOs. It felt like the standard approach.…

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  • Assi Arai
  • May 12, 2025

Building Multi-Tenant Applications in .NET

When I started working on a payroll and HR system for multiple clients, the biggest technical hurdle was building it as a multi-tenant application. Each…

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  • Assi Arai
  • May 4, 2025

Entity Framework Core: Migrations Explained

Today, I want to share a bit of my journey while working on a real-world project where I had to manage database changes properly using…

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  • Assi Arai
  • April 26, 2025

Clean Architecture: A Comprehensive Introduction to Building Scalable Systems

I want to talk to you today about something that changed the way I build software: Clean Architecture. If you’re like me, you’ve probably worked…

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  • Assi Arai
  • April 17, 2025
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