When Business Processes Outlive Your Request

A practical guide to designing long-running business processes with the Saga pattern - covering orchestration vs choreography, compensating transactions, timeouts, and observability.

Keep Your Claude Code Agents Out of the Team's Repo

How to keep Claude Code agents and skills out of shared repos using a dedicated config repo and symlinks.

Your Database Can't Read. Vector Databases Can.

What vector databases are, how they work, and when you actually need one - versus when pgvector is enough.

Async Does Not Mean Scalable

async/await frees threads but doesn't reduce work. Message queues move the bottleneck, they don't remove it. Here's what actually limits throughput in .NET systems.

OpenTelemetry in C#: Setup, Spans, and Custom Instrumentation

Wire up OpenTelemetry tracing, metrics, and logs in ASP.NET Core, run Jaeger locally, and add custom spans around the business logic that actually matters.

OpenTelemetry for Developers: The Concepts Explained Simply

A beginner-friendly guide to what OpenTelemetry is and why it matters for .NET developers. Covers the three pillars, instrumentation, and exporters - no code yet.

Api Versioning - A deep dive

Competing Consumers Pattern: The Underrated Key to handling more load