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Building PulseOps
See why IMemoryCache breaks down across multiple app instances, then move shared cache state to Redis and wire it with .NET Aspire.
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Production Systems
Event-driven systems can drop messages while every component reports success. How acknowledgment boundaries hide loss, and where to put them.
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Safe Repository Maintenance Agents
Build a permission-gated repository maintenance agent in .NET with GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Agent Framework.
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Home Lab
Build a Kubernetes home lab from old laptops with Ubuntu Server and k3s, including networking, node setup, and cluster verification.
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Streaming APIs
Learn what Transfer-Encoding: chunked means in HTTP/1.1, inspect hexadecimal chunk sizes with curl --raw, and see how HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 differ.
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gRPC
What gRPC is, how Protocol Buffers and HTTP/2 fit together, and when it beats REST or WebSockets for service-to-service calls.
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Container Commands and Arguments
Understand how Docker ENTRYPOINT, CMD, command, and arguments combine when starting containers or overriding their default process.
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.NET
Cache expensive calls in a .NET 10 app with IMemoryCache, then fix the thundering herd the naive version causes by locking around the cache miss.
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Mobile CI/CD with Azure
Build and sign Android APKs for an Ionic app with reusable Azure Pipelines YAML templates, secure files, pipeline variables, and AndroidSigning.
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D3.js Fundamentals
Understand D3.js data joins by mapping data to DOM elements and working through enter, update, and exit selections.
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Azure Service Fabric
Set up an Azure Service Fabric development environment, create a stateless service, and verify it with the local cluster tooling.