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Modern .NET APIs are expected to handle thousands of requests per second with sub-100ms response times. Yet many teams unknowingly bake in anti-patter...
When a .NET API starts slowing down under load, the root cause is rarely a single bottleneck. More often, it's a combination of small, seemingly harml...
Building a modern .NET API involves more than just choosing between minimal APIs and controllers. Many teams struggle with architectural decisions tha...
Every .NET backend starts with good intentions: clean architecture, decoupled services, and a future-proof API surface. But somewhere between the firs...
Every .NET API starts with good intentions. You follow clean architecture, add a repository layer, inject MediatR for CQRS, and write unit tests. Six ...
Every .NET API starts with good intentions. But as features pile on and deadlines tighten, small shortcuts harden into anti-patterns that make the cod...
Every .NET API team eventually hits a moment where logging middleware stops being helpful and starts being a problem. Requests vanish without a trace,...
The Illusion of Clean Code: My Journey with the 'Using' StatementFor the first eight years of my career as a .NET backend specialist, I religiously wr...