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Legacy modernization pushes teams to work double duty, maintaining the old system while building the new one. Budgets balloon, deadlines slip, morale collapses. Teams burn out, and organizations end up with two half-working systems instead of one solid foundation. Chris Woodruff

Tracking API requests requires capturing method, path, response time, status code, and client IP. Using HttpContext.Items for timing can fail after the response completes. @RoundTheCode walks through a middleware approach that handles scoping issues and forwarded headers

When should you throw exceptions vs return Result types in .NET? Throwing for validation failures creates hidden control flow, performance overhead, and observability blind spots. Sudhir Mangla examines how to classify failures (expected, exceptional, catastrophic) and choose

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Jason Taylor demonstrates .NET Aspire through live coding, showing how adding orchestration support instantly provides retry policies with Polly, service discovery, health checks, and telemetry. Press F5 to launch the entire system locally. Your C# app model becomes the source of

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Fallback routes in #AspNet Core handle SPA client-side routing and unmatched URLs. However, attaching metadata, such as authorization policies, works differently depending on whether you use MapFallback(), MapFallbackToFile(), or MapFallbackToPage(). Andrew Lock explores why

Have you ever had to deal with a function that had hundreds and hundreds of lines? A horrible twisted knot of legacy code? Get some strategies to break up that big ball of mud into something much more manageable without a complete rewrite

AspNet Core’s handling of chunked transfer encoding creates a 9.9 out of 10 CVSS vulnerability when proxies and servers parse ambiguous HTTP requests differently. Andrew Lock breaks down why this request smuggling flaw affects nearly all versions of #AspNet Core.

The “keep your domain pure” advice in DDD often becomes “never inject anything.” But what if you need business rules that vary by tenant or context? Derek Comartin explores when injecting behavior into your domain actually makes sense.

In distributed systems, saving data and sending messages separately create two failure modes: zombie records (data saved, but message lost) and ghost messages (message sent, but data lost). This article by Kyle McMaster demonstrates the use of an outbox table within the same

When you need an HTTP entry point but want to avoid maintaining another service, Azure API Management can sit at the edge, validate requests, control traffic, and route them into queues while the backend remains message-driven. Credit Sean Feldman

In this episode of the adddot podcast, host @VaughnVernon speaks with @udidahan about software architecture, touching on SOA, event-driven architecture, and sagas. Don't miss it!

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In 2014, @adamralph became the first community member to have a pull request accepted into .NET. With his 15 minutes of fame now over, he reflects on the journey that turned him into a passionate OSS advocate in Tales from an OSS Contributor

Our AWS Loan Broker showcase shows how a real-life business process (getting loan quotes) can be implemented using NServiceBus and AWS services, all in a convenient #Docker compose. Includes #OpenTelemetry @PrometheusIO @grafana @JaegerTracing too!

Just like with lanky teenagers, evolving software systems sometimes cause growing pains. A skilled architect knows how to watch for these signs and how to apply more robust architectural patterns to ensure the system can continue to grow and flourish.

Happy Halloween! Nothing is spookier than ghots messages and zombie records. They're not friendly and they don't give out candy. Learn how to banish them from your distributed system with our Transactional Session feature.

Do you need seamless communication between systems with different queuing technologies? The Messaging Bridge pattern allows you to focus on your business logic by abstracting those infrastructure away. Check it out: