Stop Conflating CQRS and MediatR
The .NET ecosystem has fused CQRS and MediatR together, and that shortcut leads teams into unnecessary complexity. They solve different problems. I'll...
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Overriding Default HTTP Resilience Handlers in .NET
Configure the standard resilience handler globally and it overrides the custom pipeline you added for a single HttpClient. Here is the extension metho...
Implementing AES Encryption With C#
Learn how to implement secure AES encryption in C# to protect sensitive application data like API keys and passwords, with practical code examples cov...
Scaling Monoliths: A Practical Guide for Growing Systems
A well-designed monolith can scale remarkably well, despite industry trends pushing toward microservices. From database sharding to message queues, le...
Working with LLMs in .NET using Microsoft.Extensions.AI
Microsoft.Extensions.AI gives you one interface for LLMs, so you can switch between Ollama, Azure, and OpenAI without changing application code. Here ...
Unit Testing Clean Architecture Use Cases
A project I worked on required code coverage above 90%, which taught me that coverage is a starting point and not a measure of test quality. Here is h...
What Rewriting a 40-Year-Old Project Taught Me About Software Development
I spent four years rewriting a 40-year-old manufacturing system written in APL while the $10M business it powered kept running. These are the technica...
Scheduling Background Jobs With Quartz in .NET (advanced concepts)
Quartz.NET is a powerful job scheduling library, but integrating it properly with ASP.NET Core requires careful consideration. Here's what I learned a...
Internal vs. Public APIs in Modular Monoliths
Every article about modular monoliths tells you to use public APIs between modules, but few explain why they exist or how to design them. After buildi...
Central Package Management in .NET - Simplify NuGet Dependencies
You open a large solution and find that every project uses a different version of the same package. Central Package Management moves all those version...
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