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Articles tagged with #microservices

The Circuit Breaker Pattern in ASP.NET Core: When to Use It and How
Every distributed system eventually faces the same failure mode: one slow or unavailable dependency pulls the entire application down with it. Threads pile up waiting for responses that never come, co
May 24, 202611 min read
The Bulkhead Pattern in ASP.NET Core: When to Use It and How
When a single slow downstream dependency can take your entire API offline, you have a cascade failure problem — and the Bulkhead Pattern is one of the most effective architectural tools for preventing
May 20, 202612 min read
Monolith vs Modular Monolith vs Microservices in .NET: Which Architecture Should Your Team Use in 2026?
Architecture decisions outlive code. The choice between a monolith, a modular monolith, and microservices in .NET shapes your deployment pipeline, your team structure, your operational complexity, and
May 19, 202611 min read
The Anti-Corruption Layer Pattern in ASP.NET Core: When to Use It and How
Every enterprise codebase eventually develops a problem that no design pattern can fully prevent: the gradual spread of someone else's model into your own. It might be a legacy ERP system whose data s
May 15, 202614 min read3
The Inbox Pattern in ASP.NET Core: When to Use It and How
The inbox pattern in ASP.NET Core is the consumer-side answer to a problem that every event-driven system eventually runs into: message brokers promise at-least-once delivery, not exactly-once. Your h
May 13, 202614 min read3
.NET Aspire vs Docker Compose in .NET: Which Local Dev Orchestration Should Your Team Use in 2026?
If your team is running an ASP.NET Core application with more than one service — a web API, a database, maybe Redis, a background worker, an email service — you have faced the question of how to wire
May 8, 202610 min read14