237 articles on .NET, architecture, data, and the craft of building software that lasts.
When I first published Beyond Boundaries: Networking Programming with C# and .NET, I knew it would need to evolve. Networking doesn’t stand still, and neither does the .NET platform. What I didn’t…
An order summary page renders in 40 milliseconds against your development database. The same page takes eleven seconds in production. You open the profiler, and the controller method looks clean. You…
Somebody told you never to call Add() in a loop. Maybe it was a senior developer during code review. Maybe it was a Stack Overflow answer with four hundred upvotes. Maybe it was a blog post that…
The Code You Already Wrote Every .NET team has at least one of these in production. It looked fine in review. It passed unit tests. It worked in staging against the seed data. Then real traffic hit…
The Function Everyone Has Written, Nobody Loves If your codebase has a method called something like SyncProducts(), RefreshMetrics(), or UpdateFromFeed(), it probably looks something like this: It…
The Import Job Nobody Wants to Own Every team has one. It might be called an import service, a feed processor, or a sync job. The name varies. What stays constant is the shape of the problem: a large…
Picture this. Your inbox lights up at 7:14 AM. A supplier just pushed 50,000 product records to your endpoint. Half are new. The other half are updates to products already sitting in your database.…
Forms are where server-rendered apps either feel sharp or feel clunky. A date field that drops you into a raw text box, a category selector that needs a client-side widget and three npm packages, a…
The first post in this series made a clean case for keyset pagination over Skip/Take. Readers on LinkedIn pushed back with a fair question I’d dodged: what about sortable grids where the user picks…
If you’ve built an ASP.NET Core API or list view backed by Entity Framework Core, you’ve almost certainly written something like this: It works. It matches the page-number UI most users expect. Every…
This post is sponsored by ZZZ Projects. You have written this loop. Every .NET developer has. It looks fine in a code review. It passes unit tests. It works against your local database with 200…
A peculiar kind of pride runs through the technology industry. Many leaders believe their problems are unique, their scale unprecedented, their requirements so specific that only a custom-built…
