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Architecture, .NET, cloud, AI, and graph databases — written from production, not theory.

Featured · September 18, 2026 · 7 min

Building an Agentic System in .NET, Part 1 — Anatomy of an Agent Harness

A chat wrapper is not an agent harness. This article walks through every structural component a real .NET 10 agent host needs — the turn loop, tool dispatch, persistence, and safety layer — and shows the minimal C# skeleton that survives a crash.

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June 26, 2026 · 6 min

Two Bugs Hiding in Our OpenTelemetry Pipeline: CORS Preflights and the NUL Byte That Killed a Whole Batch

Two silent production bugs in an OTLP-based observability pipeline — one blocking all browser telemetry clients, one dropping entire log batches — exposed how quickly boundary gaps become blind spots. Here's the root cause, the fix, and the repro for each.

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June 11, 2026 · 6 min

Vertical Slice Architecture in ASP.NET Core: Features as First-Class Citizens

Vertical Slice Architecture flips the organizational instinct of layered systems — instead of grouping code by technical concern, you group it by use case. Here's how to structure, share, test, and migrate to slices in a real ASP.NET Core codebase.

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