This week: Pinterest traces the evolution of their feed re-ranking from DPP to Sliding Spectrum Decomposition, showing why diversity drives long-term retention. Airbnb shares a battle-tested migration from StatsD to OpenTelemetry with a dual-write approach that cut metrics CPU overhead by 10x. Uber optimized Petastorm to resolve a GPU utilization bottleneck, slashing training time from 22 hours to 3 hours. And Netflix details the architecture behind their multimodal video search, unifying character, scene, and dialogue models into a real-time creative discovery tool.

This week: a comprehensive .NET desktop development interview guide covering WinUI 3, MAUI, and Avalonia. Lyft goes beyond A/B testing, using surrogates and region splits to measure long-term marketplace effects. Airbnb shares how COVID broke their forecasting models and the Bayesian architecture they built to survive the next shock. And Meta reveals the ML behind Friend Bubbles, blending social closeness models with content signals to power social discovery on Facebook Reels.

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.

This week: Uber shows how AI agents can automate design system documentation via MCP and how real-time batching solves hot-key payment bottlenecks at scale. Airbnb shares a transformer-based model for recommending travel destinations to exploratory users. And Pinterest details how unified context-intent embeddings power their Analytics Agent — now the most widely adopted internal agent at the company.

60+ C# / .NET testing interview questions with code examples. Covers unit testing, integration testing, gRPC, contracts, distributed systems, Playwright, and performance.

This week: featuring MCP protocol deep dive, Airbnb's dynamic configuration platform Sitar, Pinterest's 96% reduction in Spark OOM errors with Auto Memory Retries, and Lyft's LLM-powered localization pipeline for faster internationalization.

MCP is the universal standard for connecting AI agents to external tools and data. Learn what it is, how it works, and why every major AI company adopted it.

This week: Cloudflare’s MCP code mode, Uber’s database federation, Wix’s shift from prompting to AI management, and LinkedIn’s LLM-based ranking at scale.

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This week: .NET unit testing antipatterns, Uber’s open-source uForwarder Kafka proxy, Pinterest’s real-time ingestion platform, and Allegro’s Lynx JS battle test.

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This week: .NET Microservices and distributed systems interview prep, Netflix’s AI graph search evolution, LinkedIn’s job ingestion system at scale, and Dropbox’s AI platform insights.

This week: distributed deadlocks, AI-assisted coding interviews, Uber’s Apache Hudi data lake at scale, and LinkedIn’s AI-powered search stack redesign.

Learn the most common unit test anti-patterns in .NET, over-mocking, testing implementation details, flaky async, assertion roulette, and how to fix them.

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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.

In this article, we explain what distributed deadlocks are, how they differ from blocking and slowness, the main types of distributed deadlocks, and practical strategies to prevent them in real systems.

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