A .NET developer noticed that affiliate tracking parameters were often ignored by the eBay Browse API. The solution, built with .NET 10 and Aspire, details the fix and the strategies implemented to ensure data consistency.
A production rate-limit policy should start from the resource that saturates first, not from an algorithm. Benjamin Abt shows how to layer concurrency and time-based limits, choose partition keys that are safe as well as fair, order the middleware, and judge what in-memory state can and cannot promise once the app scales out.
Bobcat, the Critter Stack's specification tool, was applied to Marten's DaemonTests project, historically its flakiest suite: hundreds of tests now report Given/When/Then steps without a single edited test body. Steps come from attributes on helpers the tests already call, from marker comments, and from projected Shouldly assertions.
Exploring SignalR in .NET, a key tool for real-time communication in ASP.NET Core. This guide covers everything from creating the Hub to addressing authorization and crucial operational concerns for production use.
A Claude Code PostToolUse hook can run just the relevant xUnit tests right after the agent edits a file, moving verification from prompt reminders into the tool lifecycle. The article walks through an .claude/settings.json entry, the event JSON read from stdin and the meaning of each exit code on a sample Shipping solution. It is equally clear about limits: the hook cannot undo an edit, never sees files rewritten by Bash and does not replace CI.
For plain background work, .NET's built-in BackgroundService usually suffices, but the balance shifts once a process spans multiple dependent steps, approvals and recovery after a restart. The article compares both approaches on state, retries, recovery and compensation, and shows when a workflow engine actually earns its setup cost.
Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL keeps control-plane management in Azure RBAC and item access in its own data-plane RBAC. Microsoft's guidance is to model access around jobs, not people: Entra groups, one managed identity per workload, the narrowest role and scope, and temporary elevation for production.
Microsoft explains Constant Time Recovery, the design that stopped Azure SQL recovery time from scaling with the amount of work an interrupted transaction had done. A persistent version store plus logical revert let the engine mark an aborted transaction and clean up lazily instead of walking the log row by row. The work ships as Accelerated Database Recovery: always on in Azure SQL Database, opt-in on SQL Server.
Bart Wullems walks through SQL Server's built-in Full-Text Search, from the inverted index behind it to the query predicates you write against it. The piece explains why leading-wildcard LIKE queries can't seek an index, then shows how to create a full-text catalog and index, filter with CONTAINS and FREETEXT, rank results with CONTAINSTABLE, and control stop words.
Damien Bowden wires Rock Solid Knowledge's Open.IdentityServer together with ASP.NET Core Identity to stand up an OpenID Connect provider inside an Aspire solution. The sample pairs a confidential web client using Authorization Code Flow, PKCE, PAR and client assertions with a protected Web API.
A production write-up on why a multi-agent RAG pipeline that works in a US Azure region breaks for Indian users once requests cross regions, and what to change. It compares single-region, active-active and hybrid deployments on latency, cost and data residency, then walks through the operational guardrails the author settled on.