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

MassTransit with Azure Service Bus - Error management

How to recover failed messages that end up in error queues, with MassTransit as the source