EF Core Performance Mistakes That Ship to Production
The N+1 queries, missing projections, and tracking overhead that pass code review and slow down production systems.
Production Anti-Patterns
The mistakes that pass code review and break production. Anti-patterns in performance, concurrency, resilience, configuration, and testing.
Dependency Injection Anti-Patterns in ASP.NET Core
The 5 DI anti-patterns that pass code review: service locator, captive dependencies, over-injection, disposable transients, and lifetime mismatches.
Concurrency Anti-Patterns: The Race Conditions That Ship
Race conditions, deadlocks, and thread-safety bugs that pass code review: shared state mutations, fire-and-forget hazards, and lock misuse.
Resilience Anti-Patterns: The Missing Retries That Cause Outages
The 6 resilience mistakes that turn transient failures into outages: missing retries, retry storms, broken circuit breakers, no timeouts, and missing fallbacks.
Configuration Anti-Patterns: Secrets in Logs and Other Production Fires
The 6 configuration mistakes that cause production incidents: secrets in logs, missing validation, hardcoded values, environment leakage, and insecure defaults.
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.