This article explores architectural approaches to adding custom logic to business objects in enterprise software. As a .NET developer, you will learn when to inherit functionality and how to properly partition steps like 'DoSave' for customization.
Milan Jovanović compared two ways to drain a transactional outbox on PostgreSQL: polling workers and a reader streaming the write-ahead log through logical replication. Both move thousands of messages per second, so the real split is latency against operational cost — a replication slot, WAL held on disk and heavier duplicate replays.
A developer spent MLH Global Hack Week building Build Buddy, a small .NET tool that parses dotnet build output, sends each CS#### error to a local model and asks for an explanation plus a corrected file. With Gemma 3 4B via Ollama it fixed all six single-error samples, though the author is careful to call that a starting point rather than proof.
A walkthrough of how C# actually reads an expression: precedence and associativity fix the grouping, while operand evaluation still runs left to right. The article uses logged method calls, subtraction, null coalescing chains and short-circuiting to show where each rule applies and where intuition goes wrong.
A developer explains how a rewrite dropped Hangfire entirely in favor of two BackgroundService workers fed by channels, and why most recurring jobs turned out to be a query filter instead. It is a practical comparison of when you still need Hangfire or Quartz.NET and when the built-in runtime is enough.
A correct filter is not enough: a MongoDB read can still return unnecessary fields, an undefined order or an unbounded amount of data. Nick Cosentino walks through typed projection, sorting with a unique tie-breaker, offset pagination and compound continuation tokens on MongoDB.Driver 3.12.0. The guide skips basic filter syntax and answers the follow-up questions instead: what comes back, in which order, and how a later request continues.
A seasoned ASP.NET Core developer shares the token flow he ships: 15-minute signed JWT access tokens, opaque refresh tokens stored only as a SHA-256 hash, rotation on every refresh, and family-wide revocation when a rotated token reappears. The post also lists the configuration mistakes he keeps fixing in other people's APIs on .NET 10 with EF Core.
Most RabbitMQ samples stop at hello-world messaging, leaving out message loss, provider outages and permanent failures. This walkthrough builds an order endpoint on .NET 10 Minimal APIs and wires publisher confirms, a 10-second delayed retry queue and a dead-letter queue that catches messages after four failed attempts.
By turning your ABP application services into MCP tools, AI agents such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot or Cursor can list orders and approve invoices in plain language. The article lays out a roughly 150-line pattern that keeps permission checks, multi-tenant data filters and audit logging exactly where they already are: a thin tool class, a /mcp endpoint and agents acting on behalf of a user via OpenIddict bearer tokens.
A benchmark study measures 46 DI, configuration, logging, cache and EF Core operations from .NET 7.0 to 11 RC on a fixed .NET 10 runtime, and cross-checks the findings against Git history to see what the Copilot coding agent actually touched. Warm paths got faster, first calls got slower, and 11 RC carries a regression that roughly doubles reflection-based configuration binding.
Syncfusion's .NET MAUI Smart PDF Viewer adds an AI Assistant, Smart Redaction and Smart Form Fill, backed by Azure OpenAI or any Microsoft.Extensions.AI chat client. The component targets document-heavy apps that need summaries, sensitive-data detection and faster form entry on mobile and desktop.
This Habr write-up walks through setting up distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry across two ASP.NET Core apps, an OpenTelemetry Collector and Jaeger. It explains when to create your own spans with Activity and ActivitySource, how W3C Trace Context propagates across services, and why a traceId in the response does not guarantee the trace reached Jaeger.
Jeremy D. Miller keeps a running diary of a Critter Stack release day: Claude agents spread over several repositories, GitHub Actions runner queues, local test gating and a client-reported Marten memory issue. The post is a useful look at the bottlenecks that show up when agents multiply the work a single maintainer can attempt.
Khalid Abuhakmeh lays out the four render modes a single Blazor Web App can choose per page or per component since .NET 8 — Static SSR, Interactive Server, Interactive WebAssembly and Auto — plus Blazor Hybrid. The post weighs each mode's costs and maps common scenarios to a recommended choice.
Microsoft walks through preparing an IIS virtual machine on Azure for a reader-only Azure SRE Agent: Azure Monitor Agent ships IIS logs, Windows events, counters and configuration changes into Log Analytics. The lesson is that diagnosis quality depends less on the model than on the evidence the agent can actually read.
Daniel Marbach walks through optimizing a short LINQ predicate in the Azure Service Bus AMQP receiver and finds the real cost in the generated delegate allocation. His first change won on every input shape, while a later collection-aware rewrite helped sets and lists but slowed lazy enumerables; the lesson is measuring what the query compiles into instead of abandoning LINQ.