#software-architecture

Articles tagged with #software-architecture

Building an AI Gateway in .NET
How to centralise model access, resilience, routing, telemetry and cost tracking without dragging business logic into a shared AI service.
Jul 11, 202618 min read1.5K
Should Your .NET App Expose an MCP Server?
AI features in .NET apps are starting to move past the simple chat box. At first, Devs usually adds one model call. The app sends a prompt, gets a response, and shows it to the user. That is easy enou
Jul 8, 202614 min read261
Testing payload drift in .NET with PayloadGremlin
In the last post, we built a small chaos proxy in C#. That proxy sat between our application and a downstream API. It made the network awkward on purpose. Sometimes it added latency. Sometimes it retu
Jul 3, 202617 min read95
Build a Chaos Proxy in C#
Most API clients are tested against the best possible version of the downstream system. The downstream responds quickly. The JSON is valid. The status code makes sense. The connection stays open. The
Jul 1, 202612 min read165
Building a Bytecode VM in C#
A bytecode VM sounds like something that belongs inside a language runtime, a game engine, or a browser. But the basic idea is much smaller than it looks. You define a small set of instructions. You s
Jun 27, 202611 min read173
Cache Lines: The Invisible Boundary Your .NET Code Keeps Crossing
You often find that a performance problem in .NET is not caused by one dramatic mistake. It usually come from a small, ordinary decision repeated millions of times. One of those decisions is how your
Jun 27, 202614 min read1.6K