When Your Use Case Half-Succeeds: Designing for Partial Failure in .NET
A use case isn't a transaction. The moment it touches more than one system, you are dealing with partial failure. Here's how I classify side effects a...
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API Versioning Should Be Your Last Resort
Most teams reach for v2 too early because they don't have a contract evolution strategy. Here's the API change management approach I prefer: evolve co...
What Invariants Are (and Why a Domain Model Is the Best Place to Enforce Them)
Most 'DDD-ish' code I review enforces business rules everywhere except in the model itself, so the same rule ends up duplicated across handlers and va...
The Test Pyramid Is a Lie (and What I Do Instead)
The test pyramid made sense when integration tests meant a shared database server and a 20-minute build. It doesn't match how I build .NET systems in ...
Why I Switched to Primary Constructors for DI in C#
I resisted primary constructors for a while. They felt like a shortcut that would cost me later. But after using them across several projects, I'm sol...
Implementing the Saga Pattern With Wolverine
Long-running business processes don't fit neatly into a single request. Wolverine's Saga support gives you a convention-based approach to orchestratin...
Implementing the Inbox Pattern for Reliable Message Consumption
The Outbox pattern guarantees reliable publishing. But what about the consumer side? The Inbox pattern ensures each incoming message is processed exac...
Getting Started With PgVector in .NET for Simple Vector Search
Vector search doesn't require a dedicated vector database. PostgreSQL with pgvector gives you similarity search right next to your relational data. He...
Scaling SignalR With a Redis Backplane
SignalR connections are server-local. Scale out to multiple instances and messages stop reaching the right clients. Here's how the Redis backplane fix...
Optimizing Bulk Database Updates in .NET: From Naive to Lightning-Fast
Seven approaches to bulk-updating rows in PostgreSQL from .NET using Dapper and EF Core, from naive per-row updates to binary COPY. Each step cuts dow...
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