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This week: two bool.dev guides on hidden EF Core costs and consolidating microservices without losing module boundaries; Booking.com’s production investigation into Node.js resource efficiency; and LinkedIn’s move to a dedicated shuffle service for Spark and Flink.
Every migration guide explains how to split a monolith. This one goes the other way: a test for which services to merge, and seven patterns for merging them back into a modular monolith without a big-bang rewrite, each with its cost.
EF Core makes the slow path look exactly like the fast path. A scan, an N+1 loop, and a Cartesian join all read like clean LINQ. This guide walks through 18 concrete mistakes across querying, related data, change tracking, indexes, plan caching, and context overhead, with the fix for each and a ready-to-use rule for your AI coding assistant.
A practical overview of MilTech and DefenseTech for software engineers, covering drones, AI, autonomy, electronic warfare, edge computing, C2 systems, tech stacks, major industry players, development constraints, and current trends shaped by the war in Ukraine.
Prepare for your next .NET interview with 800+ interview questions and answers covering C#, ASP.NET Core, SQL, NoSQL, microservices, distributed systems, testing, AI, Agile, desktop and mobile development. For developers, senior engineers, architects and tech leads.
In this article, we review AI, LLM, prompting, .NET AI integration, Semantic Kernel, Microsoft Agent Framework, MCP, RAG, resilience, testing, observability, security, and AI coding tools for .NET engineers.
Learn four ways to manage AI conversation history in .NET: full replay, sliding window, summary buffer, and vector recall. C# code, costs, and trade-offs.
This week: a comprehensive .NET MAUI mobile development interview guide covering framework choices, MVVM, and cross-platform architecture. Netflix introduces the Model Lifecycle Graph a metadata service that makes every ML asset discoverable across business domains. Discord shares a detailed postmortem of their March voice outage, diving deep into Elixir process mailbox overload and Kubernetes safeguards. And Pinterest shows how injecting real-time context signals into sequential recommender models improves ad relevance and targeting.
A practical guide to C# mobile development interviews in 2026. Covers .NET MAUI, Xamarin, architecture, performance, UI patterns, and real-world mobile engineering concepts with clear explanations and examples.
This part of C# / .NET interview questions and answers covering modern desktop development: WinUI 3, .NET MAUI, Avalonia UI, MVVM architecture with CommunityToolkit, performance optimization, data storage with EF Core and SQLite, secure credentials, background sync, MSIX packaging, and auto-update strategies.
This week: a comprehensive .NET testing guide covering everything from unit test fundamentals to gRPC contract testing. Netflix introduces MediaFM, their first tri-modal foundation model for deep content understanding. LinkedIn reveals how LLM embeddings and Generative Recommender models are powering the next generation of feed ranking for 1.3 billion users. And Pinterest walks through building a full MCP ecosystem — from registry and security to 66K monthly invocations, saving thousands of engineering hours.
60+ C# / .NET testing interview questions with code examples. Covers unit testing, integration testing, gRPC, contracts, distributed systems, Playwright, and performance.
Learn the most common unit test anti-patterns in .NET, over-mocking, testing implementation details, flaky async, assertion roulette, and how to fix them.
In this article, we explore microservices and distributed systems interview questions and answers, and what every .NET engineer should know, from service boundaries and BFF to sagas, events, service discovery, and communication patterns.
This chapter explores NoSQL Databases questions that .NET engineers should be able to answer in an interview.
This chapter explores SQL Database questions that .NET engineers should be able to answer in an interview.
Overview of the Microsoft Orleans framework: virtual actors, grains, runtime, and use cases. Build scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems in .NET.
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Master ASP.NET Core for interviews! Explore middleware, routing, DI, caching, & security with expert Q&A for junior to senior .NET devs.
Weekend Reading: A weekly roundup of interesting Software Architecture and Programming articles from tech companies. Find fresh ideas and insights every weekend.