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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
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Home Lab
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Streaming APIs
See how HTTP/1.1 frames streaming responses into chunks, inspect the raw bytes with curl, and understand what changes in HTTP/2 and HTTP/3.
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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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.NETWhen IMemoryCache Stops Scaling: Moving to Redis with .NET Aspire
See why IMemoryCache breaks down across multiple app instances, then move shared cache state to Redis and wire it with .NET Aspire.
distributed systemsReplacing Sharp with WASM: How a Hidden SVG Dependency Broke Our Rendering Pipeline
A production-only SVG failure exposed a hidden Sharp dependency, a broken fallback, and why I replaced the rasteriser with resvg WASM.
kubernetesWhen Three Kubernetes Pods Try to Run One Database Migration
Three replicas raced the same Prisma migration. A PostgreSQL advisory lock coordinator fixes it when your platform cannot run a pre-deploy Job.
aiScaling an Agentic Coding SDK: What Concurrency Actually Costs
Running agent jobs in parallel is not free. Measuring the real memory, process and shared-state costs of concurrency in an agentic coding SDK.
aiBuild a Safe Repository Maintenance Agent with GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Agent Framework in .NET
Giving an AI agent access to a repository takes only a few lines of code. Giving it useful access without silently approving every command is the real…
aiBuild a Safe Repository Maintenance Agent with GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Agent Framework in Python
In the .NET tutorial, we built a repository agent that could inspect a checkout, propose a one-line repair, run its tests, and report the result…
metaWhat I Learned Growing an Engineering Blog from 0 to 463,000 Pageviews
Seven years, 56 posts and 463,000 pageviews. Which articles actually earned the traffic, what the numbers hide, and what I would do differently.
distributed systemsReplacing a Critical Data Path Without a Flag Day
Shadow reads, a normalized comparison and a staged cutover: how to replace a data path in production without a single big-bang release.