Most teams start using IHttpClientFactory because someone told them to stop newing up HttpClient. That swap takes five minutes. What they miss is the twelve other decisions that determine whether IHtt
Most ASP.NET Core services call external HTTP dependencies — payment gateways, third-party APIs, internal microservices. Testing that behaviour without making real network calls is one of those proble
HttpClient is one of the most widely used classes in .NET, and it is also one of the most frequently misused. When things go wrong, the errors are cryptic enough that many teams spend hours chasing th
Picking the right HTTP client library is one of those decisions that looks trivial during a sprint planning session and comes back to haunt teams months later - when you're scaling to hundreds of micr
Every ASP.NET Core application that calls external services eventually faces the same decision: how should we manage HttpClient instances? The answer, for most teams, is IHttpClientFactory — but the f
