MOD-02 / WRITINGS · 2 ARTICLES + 1 VIDEO / WEEK
Notes from production.
.NET architecture, infrastructure and AI agents — written from systems that actually run for clients. No theory detached from code.
2026.06 JUNE — 4 ENTRIES
Strangler pattern in practice: Razor → React migration without stopping production
Replacing the frontend of a live system is open-heart surgery. I show how to do it module by module.
Read12 MIN
Task.WhenAll without surprises — parallelism in ASP.NET Core
Watch18:42
Self-hosted GitHub Actions runner on Windows Server — complete setup
Secrets via environment variables, IIS deployment and the trap where robocopy wipes env vars.
Read10 MIN
InvariantGlobalization breaks SqlClient — anatomy of one flag
How one image-size optimisation can take down database connections in .NET 10.
Read7 MIN
2026.05 MAY — 4 ENTRIES
When SQL Server goes silent: diagnosing an instance hang step by step
Ten hours of silence in ERRORLOG, VSS snapshots and an external watchdog in PowerShell.
Read15 MIN
My first agent: a catalogue of 82 repositories built by orchestration
Watch24:15
EF Core and cascade conflicts: when ON DELETE CASCADE shoots you in the foot
Multiple cascade paths, migration errors and strategies that will not blow up production data.
Read9 MIN
SendGrid → MailKit: a hard email migration across two systems at once
A switch-over plan with no double-send window — and why API keys must not live in appsettings.json.
Read8 MIN