Introduction Someone in leadership says “we need to move to .NET 8” or “let’s get this thing into Azure.” Cool. But when you ask what that actually means — which apps, which order, what happens to production while you’re mid-migration — you often get a vague answer and a timeline that makes no sense. I’ve […]
AUGUST 2026 · ~7 MIN READ · .NET · AGENTIC AI Who Picks the Next Step – You or the LLM? I built two agent apps in .NET before I understood they weren’t the same thing. This is what I learned – and how you can build either one without rebuilding halfway through. Key takeaway […]
The Problem Story Picture this. It is a Tuesday afternoon. Your product manager says: “We just need to add an email field. Should be quick, right?” You open the codebase. The User entity imports SqlConnection. Business logic calls the database in the same method. No interfaces. No tests. Everything wired to everything else. You add […]
Garnet is an exciting project from Microsoft Research that addresses the ever-growing demand for efficient data storage mechanisms to support interactive web applications and services. Let’s dive into the details: Introducing Garnet: A Next-Generation Cache-Store What Is Garnet? Garnet is an open-source, next-generation cache-store system designed to offer high performance, extensibility, and low latency. Researchers […]