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AI & Agentic EngineeringBuild•Aug 2026•9 min read•Standalone Repo

Building Production AI Agents with Model Context Protocol (MCP) in .NET

Standardizing tool invocation, schema discovery, and enterprise safety boundaries in C# and .NET 8.

How to standardize LLM tool calling, schema discovery, and enterprise context integration using the Model Context Protocol in C# and .NET 8.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) replaces fragile bespoke plugins with standard JSON-RPC contracts.

Strict JSON Schema boundary definitions eliminate LLM parameter hallucination before execution.

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.NET EngineeringDeep Dive•Jul 2026•9 min read•Lab Subpath

Strongly-Typed Options Pattern & Architectural Validation in ASP.NET Core

Moving beyond IConfiguration strings: startup validation, options lifecycle, and decoupled microservice configuration.

Moving beyond IConfiguration strings: implementing strongly-typed options, startup validation, and decoupled configuration in enterprise microservices.

Never inject raw IConfiguration into business logic or domain services.

Use IOptions<T> for immutable singleton settings and IOptionsSnapshot<T> for per-request reloading.

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AI & Agentic EngineeringEngineering Workflow•Jun 2026•9 min read•Lab Subpath

Spec-Driven Development: Moving from Requirements to Verified Code

Why senior engineering boundaries and formal interface specifications are essential to harness AI coding agents.

Why senior engineering judgment and formal interface specifications are essential to harness AI coding agents without code drift.

Generative AI models are probabilistic; enterprise production requires deterministic correctness.

Decouple requirement definition from code synthesis through formal OpenAPI/Protobuf specifications.

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System DesignArchitecture•May 2026•10 min read•Standalone Repo

Transactional Outbox & Resilient Messaging on Azure Service Bus

Eliminating dual-write failures between relational databases and Azure Service Bus in high-throughput .NET microservices.

Eliminating dual-write failures between relational databases and Azure Service Bus using the Transactional Outbox pattern and background publishers.

Dual writes to a database and a message broker within one HTTP request will inevitably result in inconsistency.

The Transactional Outbox persists outbound events into the same SQL transaction as domain state mutations.

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System DesignArchitecture•Dec 2022•10 min read•Standalone Repo

Schedule Cron Jobs and Background Tasks in .NET using Hangfire

A practical enterprise guide to background workers, persistent queues, and dashboard monitoring.

A step-by-step guide to using the Hangfire library to schedule, execute, and monitor background tasks in ASP.NET Core applications.

Hangfire eliminates the need for separate Windows Services with in-process background processing.

Persistent storage in SQL Server or Redis guarantees zero job loss during service restarts.

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.NET EngineeringBuild•Jan 2023•10 min read•Lab Subpath

Building Secure ASP.NET Core Web APIs with JWT Authentication

End-to-end token generation, claims validation, and role-based authorization middleware in .NET.

How to implement production-grade JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication, claims-based access control, and authorization in ASP.NET Core.

Stateless JSON Web Tokens eliminate server-side session bottlenecks in distributed architectures.

Enforce strong cryptographic signing with HMAC-SHA256 and secure symmetric/asymmetric keys.

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.NET EngineeringDeep Dive•Jan 2023•10 min read•Lab Subpath

Memory Caching in .NET: Boost Application Throughput & Latency

Implementing IMemoryCache with sliding expiration, cache eviction policies, and race-condition prevention.

Practical strategies for leveraging IMemoryCache in ASP.NET Core to dramatically reduce database bottlenecks and accelerate response times.

In-memory caching reduces database query load by up to 90% for read-heavy workloads.

Combine absolute and sliding expiration to prevent stale cache entries while optimizing hits.

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.NET EngineeringDeep Dive•Jan 2023•9 min read•Lab Subpath

Asynchronous Programming in C# and .NET: Deep Dive into Async/Await

Mastering Task mechanics, thread pool starvation prevention, and synchronization contexts.

An engineering deep dive into asynchronous programming in C#, Task state machines, avoiding deadlocks, and preventing thread exhaustion.

Async/await frees execution threads during I/O operations, dramatically boosting web server scale.

Avoid .Result and .Wait() synchronous blocking to prevent deadlocks and thread pool exhaustion.

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Data & DatabasesDeep Dive•Jan 2023•9 min read•Lab Subpath

Advanced LINQ Operations in C#: GroupJoin, Expressions & Optimizations

Unlocking the full potential of complex relational joins, aggregations, and execution trees in .NET.

Deep dive into advanced LINQ operations in C#: complex joins, GroupJoin, Zip, Aggregate, and memory allocation pitfalls in production.

GroupJoin and SelectMany enable sophisticated hierarchical relational queries in-memory.

Understanding IQueryable vs IEnumerable determines whether queries execute on DB or client.

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Azure & Cloud EngineeringBuild•Dec 2022•9 min read•Lab Subpath

Deploy .NET Applications Using Docker: A Production Guide

Multi-stage Dockerfiles, image size minimization, and containerized microservice deployments.

How to package, optimize, and deploy ASP.NET Core applications into minimal, secure Docker containers for production environments.

Multi-stage Docker builds separate build SDKs from runtime environments to minimize image footprint.

Run .NET containers as non-root users to adhere to enterprise container security standards.

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.NET EngineeringBuild•Aug 2022•9 min read•Lab Subpath

Transactional Email Delivery in ASP.NET Core with MailKit & MimeKit

Modern replacement for obsolete SmtpClient: HTML templates, secure SMTP, and resilience.

A robust approach to sending transactional HTML emails in ASP.NET Core using MailKit, secure credentials, and background queueing.

Never use obsolete System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient; MailKit is the official modern .NET standard.

Separate email dispatch from web request lifecycles via background queuing or outbox workers.

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.NET EngineeringDeep Dive•Jan 2023•9 min read•Lab Subpath

High-Throughput JSON Serialization in .NET with System.Text.Json

Zero-allocation Utf8JsonReader, custom JsonConverter implementations, and migration from Newtonsoft.

Optimizing JSON processing in modern .NET: utilizing System.Text.Json, custom converters, source generators, and zero-allocation techniques.

System.Text.Json delivers up to 3x higher throughput with significantly lower heap allocations than Newtonsoft.

Leverage C# source generators (JsonSerializerContext) for compile-time ahead-of-time (AOT) reflection-free JSON.

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