Part 8: Persistence and State - EF Core, Migrations, and Reliability
In the last part, we looked at how expressions make your workflows dynamic. Today, we are discussing the backbone of any production-ready system: Pers…
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AI Evals, Part 3: Golden Datasets That Dont Lie
Part 3 of a series on building production AI on .NET. Part 1 was the overview; Part 2 was error analysis. Now we turn the failure taxonomy you built i…
Your .NET RAG stack hides a Python sidecar. I built the engine that removes it.
TL;DR — Every .NET RAG project quietly ships a Python sidecar to do one job: chunk documents. I got rid of mine. DocNest .NET is an idiomatic C# / .NE…
Build and deploy an MCP server with .NET and Azure Container Apps
MCP servers do not have to be local stdio processes. If you want a tool surface that can run as a normal HTTP service, scale like an app, and be reach…
Dev Log: deleting code and breaking the build on purpose
Day one of building Munchausen v1.0 started with deleting the existing implementation and deliberately breaking its replacement. Munchausen is a mock-…
How to Use FFmpeg with C# (No Installation Required)
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com Most C# video processing guides start the same way: download an FFmpeg binary, add it to your PATH, then call…
Starving the Garbage Collector: A Pragmatic Guide to Zero-Allocation C#
Over the last few weeks, I’ve open-sourced a suite of high-performance, zero-dependency C# engines. This includes a native DataFrame library ( Glacier…
Why Use Repository Pattern in Angular Applications - Best Practices
In modern Angular applications, managing data efficiently is crucial for performance and maintainability. The Repository Pattern provides a clean abst…
DefaultAzureCredential vs Client ID & Client Secret for Azure Key Vault Authentication
Securely accessing Azure Key Vault is essential for modern cloud applications. This guide compares the DefaultAzureCredential (recommended) and the cl…
Docusaurus – The Modern Docs Framework
1. What is Docusaurus? Docusaurus is an open‑source static‑site generator focused on documentation. Built and maintained by Meta (formerly Facebook), …
A Semantic Approach to WPF and MVVM with Clprolf framework
Introduction WPF and the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) pattern are powerful tools for desktop development. However, as applications grow, the technical …
Azure Application Insights: Monitoring, KQL Queries and Observability in Production
At 2am on a Tuesday, an IP address change in Microsoft infrastructure silently broke our entire integration pipeline at Blue Yonder. Messages stopped …
AI Evals, Part 2: Error Analysis The Unglamorous Superpower Behind Good Evals
Part 2 of a series on building production AI on .NET. Part 1 covered what evals are and the Analyze → Measure → Improve lifecycle. This post is about …
Blazor SSR Gets Client-Side Validation in .NET 11 Preview 5 — No More Round-Trips Just to Show a Red Border
Blazor SSR Gets Client-Side Validation in .NET 11 Preview 5 If you've built Blazor Server-Side Rendering (SSR) forms, you know the pain: a user fills …
How I Built an AI-Powered Adult (Porn) Content Scanner for Windows (And the Engineering Challenges I Didn't Expect)
Building an AI-Powered Content Scanner for Windows: Performance, Multithreading and GPU Acceleration in .NET Building software always looks straightfo…
The joy of coding a command line english dictionary program in dotnet
In today's globally connected digital village, we often come across words and syllables which are quite new to us. Most folks hardly take the trouble …
docfx-remote-include: inline remote markdown into DocFX, and govern the assembled page
docfx-remote-include is a Markdig extension and a dotnet CLI tool for DocFX . It does two things: it inlines markdown fetched from an HTTP service at …
The AI-generated C# that passes review and breaks in production
TL;DR — AI assistants are producing C# that looks correct and passes review, but reintroduces production regressions we spent years training out of te…
I built a native C# Grep engine that's holding it's own with ripgrep (with zero allocations)
Let’s be honest: the golden rule of modern software engineering is "never rewrite grep." Tools like ripgrep are written in native Rust, compiled strai…
Building a Metadata-Driven Runtime API Platform for Analytics Systems
Building a Metadata-Driven Runtime API Platform for Analytics Systems 1. Business Problem When I joined this project as a consultant, I almost said no…
Classes, Enums, and Records Look Like Simple Language Features — Until You Realize They Define Your Entire Domain Model
Classes, Enums, and Records Look Like Simple Language Features — Until You Realize They Define Your Entire Domain Model Why Senior .NET Engineers Spen…
I built an audit log for EF Core that can actually undo a change
If you've shipped a few business apps you've probably written the same thing more than once: an audit log. A table that answers "who touched this row,…
Why Squirix uses a strict client/server architecture for a .NET distributed cache
Squirix 0.1.0 is an early preview of a .NET distributed cache. A typed client SDK talks to a remote server over gRPC; the server owns state, routing, …
Two Devs, One Marketplace: The Boring Decisions That Saved Us (SvelteKit + .NET)
There are two people on this project. My friend owns the backend on .NET. I do everything else: design, product, and the entire frontend on SvelteKit.…
I Built the .NET Roadmap I Wish I Had at the Start of My Career
Hi DEV Community 👋 "We’ve all been there: you finish a tutorial, the code runs, but you still feel like you’re missing the 'why' behind the architectu…
Why I Bypassed the Cloud Treadmill to Build a 100% Independent Self-Hosted Stack
Philosophy doesn't mean much without execution. If I’m going to advocate for data sovereignty and owning your data, I need to show you exactly what my…
How I Built and Published a .NET NuGet Package for the Giant SMS API
A while back, I needed to integrate SMS into a .NET project. Giant SMS had a REST API, but no official .NET client. The only existing library was a PH…
How Tech Giants Build Software
Think of a tech stack like the tools, materials, and blueprints used to build a skyscraper. Different buildings need different materials. Similarly, t…
How I Am Building an AI Meeting Assistant in ASP.NET Core (And Avoided Timeout Nightmares)
For my 4rd-year Software Engineering final project at university, I’m building an AI Meeting Assistant. The core feature is simple: A user uploads a 2…
.NET Quizzes and Tiny Console Projects Look Beginner-Level — Until You Realize They Are Quietly Training You to Think Like a Systems Engineer
Why Senior .NET Engineers Respect Fundamentals More Than Most Developers Expect One of the biggest misconceptions in software engineering is believing…