Look at a week of traffic through any AI endpoint and the distribution is always lopsided. A large majority of requests are trivial - classify this ticket, extract these three fields, answer a questio
You're building an enterprise ASP.NET Core API and someone on the team raises the question: "Should we implement a proper Unit of Work layer, or just inject DbContext directly?" It sounds like a minor
The way your team loads related data in Entity Framework Core shapes production performance more than most architectural decisions ever will. Every navigation property access is a potential N+1 query.
When a single message consumer can no longer keep pace with the volume of incoming work, the natural response is to run more of them — and let them race. That is the competing consumers pattern in a s
The Pipes and Filters pattern is one of those architectural ideas that shows up everywhere in .NET — in ASP.NET Core's middleware stack, in MediatR's pipeline behaviors, in System.Threading.Channels p
Most .NET teams reach for "events" as a general-purpose solution long before they have a clear model for what kind of event they're working with. The confusion is understandable - both domain events a
