Build a Clean ASP.NET Core API with Signalynx and CQRS
ASP.NET Core controllers often begin with only a few lines of code. As an application grows, however, controllers can slowly become responsible for va…
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What a .NET Core service needs before it's actually production-ready
Health checks. Structured logging. Retry policies with jitter. Everyone who writes a "production readiness checklist" for a .NET Core service reaches …
Optimizing API Latency in C# .NET Applications
API latency plays a crucial role in performance and user experience. High latency frustrates users, reduces scalability, and increases infrastructure …
Building a Parking Puzzle in Unity: A Systems Breakdown of the Park Match Mechanic
Parking and matching puzzles look almost insultingly simple from the outside. A few cars, a cramped lot, tap or drag to move them out. But if you've a…
Как я посадил WireMock.Net на gRPC стероиды
WireMock.Net умеет мокать gRPC . Но для этого он заставляет разработчика таскать .proto файлы и поддерживать лишнюю конфигурацию. Я контрибьютил в про…
I ported a knowledge-format (OKF) library to zero-dependency .NET — here's what I learned
If you can cat a file, you can read the knowledge base. If you can git clone a repo, you can ship it. No vector database to stand up, no proprietary e…
When to Rebuild vs When to Refactor: A Decision Framework for Founders
At some point in the life of almost every growing product, the team has a version of the same conversation. The codebase is causing pain. Features are…
MCP Deep Dive, Part 12: Building MCP Servers in C# and .NET 9 — The SDK, DI, and Native AOT
We've built servers, clients, tools, auth, and governance across this series — all in C#, without ever slowing down to look at how the .NET tooling ma…
When the disk fills up: pressure and tenant isolation in Squirix preview.7
In my preview.6 article , I wrote about what happens after a write is accepted: binary WAL frames, group commit, crash recovery, and durable retries. …
Extension Blocks in C# 14 Are More Than New Syntax
Extension methods have been part of C# for years. Extension blocks finally make them feel like a small, organized API. Extension methods are one of th…
Building a Custom Modbus TCP Client in .NET: What a Production-Grade Poller Actually Needs
Most Modbus tutorials in .NET end at the same place: install a library, call ReadHoldingRegisters , print a number. That is enough to prove a device i…
What happens after a write? Reworking Squirix's WAL in preview.6
In my first Squirix article , I wrote about why Squirix keeps a strict boundary between the client and the server. Applications use a typed client ove…
EF Core Migration Bundles: What They Are & Why They Matter
TL;DR A migration bundle packages every pending migration for one DbContext into a single, runtime-targeted executable. No source code or dotnet-ef to…
Fuse v4.2, an open source MCP/CLI tool to speed up Claude Code on C# codebases
Fuse 4.2 is an open source .NET global tool that runs as an MCP server or from the command line. I built Fuse after watching coding agents repeatedly …
.NET 8 and .NET 9 Both Die on November 10 - Yes, the LTS Too
Originally published at endoflife.ai . Here's a date collision that surprises people: .NET 8 and .NET 9 reach end of support on the same day — Novembe…
What MasterMemory Solves—and What It Doesn't: A Practical Guide to Static Game Data in Unity
Introduction When you build games with Unity, you eventually run into the problem of managing static game data—often called master data in Japanese ga…
EF Core Mapping for DDD — for Dummies
You built a nice domain model with rules and private properties — but EF Core wants simple classes with public get; set; . Don't worry. This guide sho…
What is OpenIddict: the .NET framework developers choose for OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect
I've been writing a short series on OpenIddict basics while preparing IdentitySuite's v3.0 release — here's part 1. The .NET framework developers choo…
Stop writing a test-data builder for every class in .NET
If you've ever written test data by hand, you know the ritual: a PersonBuilder , an OrderBuilder , an AddressBuilder … one hand-written builder per cl…
Pre-allocate Like a Pro
I’ve been playing with C# 15 quite a bit this week, and after yesterday’s post about the new with() syntax I started thinking about something I’ve alw…
10 Common Unity Networking Issues (and How to Fix Them)
Multiplayer bugs in Unity rarely look like networking bugs. They look like "the game froze," "the player teleported," or "it worked in the Editor and …
ASP.NET Core: Building High-Performance Web Applications and APIs
ASP.NET Core: Building High-Performance Web Applications and APIs A practical guide to ASP.NET Core — the cross-platform framework for building REST A…
Testing AI Agents in .NET with skUnit: Step-by-Step
One of the biggest challenges when building AI agents isn't writing the agent, it's testing it. Traditional unit tests work great for deterministic co…
LINQ and ZLinq in the Unity 6 Era: Avoiding GC Allocations in Large-Scale Projects
Introduction In large-scale Unity development, GC Alloc can quietly become a real problem. At first, nothing looks wrong. But as the project grows and…
TensorSharp.ai Review: A .NET-Native Way to Run GGUF Models Locally
Why TensorSharp is interesting right now Local AI is no longer just a Python or C++ story. TensorSharp is an open-source, .NET-native inference engine…
Clean Architecture in .NET 8: A 2026 Starter Template with 4 Projects, EF Core, and JWT Auth
I joined a team where the controller was 800 lines long, the business rules were scattered between the controller and the DbContext , and "to run the …
Build a Local RAG Chatbot in 30 Minutes with .NET 8, Ollama, and React
I uploaded a 40-page PDF of an internal API spec, asked "what's the rate limit for the search endpoint?", and got back: "100 requests per minute per A…
Dev Log: The milestone where Build() stops lying
I’m reviving Munchausen, a C# NuGet package I started 9 years ago. This is part 6 of an 8-part series documenting both the development process and the…
Dev Log: When the design contradicts itself, stop typing
I’m reviving Munchausen, a C# NuGet package I started 9 years ago. This is part 5 of an 8-part series documenting both the development process and the…
Implementing Feature Flags Across Stack
Shipping an application that I didn't have access to was giving me heartburn. So I decided to create a lightweight feature flag tool. The Problem The …