Resilience Patterns with Polly: Circuit Breakers, Retries, and Timeouts
Polly patterns for production: when to retry, circuit breaker configuration, timeout strategies, and combining policies for fault-tolerant ASP.NET Core applications.
Insights
Long-form engineering research, field notes, and technical deep dives.
Testing Anti-Patterns: The Flaky Tests That Cry Wolf
The 6 testing mistakes that erode confidence: flaky tests, missing integration coverage, poor isolation, test pollution, brittle assertions, and slow test suites.
Testing Strategies: xUnit vs NUnit vs MSTest Decision Framework
Framework selection criteria, integration testing with WebApplicationFactory, test isolation patterns, and async testing strategies for .NET applications.
A Spec-Driven AI Workflow That Holds Up in Production
A disciplined Plan > Implement > Checkpoint loop that keeps AI-assisted development reliable once context resets become routine.
Performance Defaults That Beat Clever Optimizations
The boring baseline that makes content sites fast: OutputCache policies, EF Core query shaping, compression, and stable indexing.
From Markdown to Live: A Publishing Pipeline Without a CMS
How DAP iQ turns markdown into published pages with predictable SEO output: frontmatter, upserts, feeds, sitemaps, and local validation.
Security Boundaries for AI-Assisted Development in ASP.NET Core
A practical threat model for AI-generated diffs, with concrete guardrails from a real ASP.NET Core content site.
Understanding AI Code Assistants: Beyond the Hype
What AI code assistants do well, where they fail, and how to use them safely in production software development.