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Grammarly in .NET: Real-Time Grammar Checking, Context-Aware Suggestions, and Processing 1 Billion Words Daily

Grammarly in .NET: Real-Time Grammar Checking, Context-Aware Suggestions, and Processing 1 Billion Words Daily

1 Introduction and Architecture Overview Grammarly’s ability to process over a billion words daily while providing real-time, context-aware grammar suggestions across multiple platforms is

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Distributed ID Generation at Scale: From Snowflake to ULID - Building Instagram's ID System in .NET

Distributed ID Generation at Scale: From Snowflake to ULID - Building Instagram's ID System in .NET

1 Problem framing and design goals Every distributed system that needs unique identifiers at scale must grapple with a deceptively simple question: how do we generate IDs that are unique, sortable

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Microfrontends That Don’t Hurt: Module Federation, Web Components, and BFF Contracts on ASP.NET Core

Microfrontends That Don’t Hurt: Module Federation, Web Components, and BFF Contracts on ASP.NET Core

1 Set the Stage: Microfrontends That Don’t Hurt Microfrontends are one of those architectural ideas that sound deceptively simple: “split the frontend by business domain, let teams deploy independ

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Error Handling That Scales: Railway-Oriented Programming, Result Types, and Exceptions in .NET

Error Handling That Scales: Railway-Oriented Programming, Result Types, and Exceptions in .NET

1 Why Error Handling Must Scale Modern distributed systems rarely fail in clean, predictable ways. In small prototypes, an exception stack trace is often “good enough” to debug issues. But under r

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Building Dropbox in .NET: From Chunked Uploads to Merkle Trees - A Production Architecture for Petabyte-Scale File Sync

Building Dropbox in .NET: From Chunked Uploads to Merkle Trees - A Production Architecture for Petabyte-Scale File Sync

1 Problem framing: what “Dropbox-class” sync really entails File synchronization at petabyte scale isn’t about copying bytes between disks — it’s about making distributed state converge efficien

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Domain Boundaries Without Ceremony: Hexagonal, Vertical Slice, and DDD Lite for Pragmatic Teams

Domain Boundaries Without Ceremony: Hexagonal, Vertical Slice, and DDD Lite for Pragmatic Teams

1 Domain Boundaries Without Ceremony In modern software development, you often find teams drowned in architecture meetings, heavy frameworks, rigid layers, and complex abstractions—only to discove

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From Single Agents to Agentic Systems: A Practical Blueprint for Senior Engineers

From Single Agents to Agentic Systems: A Practical Blueprint for Senior Engineers

1 Foundations: Agents vs. Agentic Systems In this opening section, we’re going to lay the conceptual groundwork for the shift from single agents to agentic systems. If you’re a senior engineer, te

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Practical OOP : Composition Over Inheritance, Records, and Pattern Matching in Modern C#

Practical OOP : Composition Over Inheritance, Records, and Pattern Matching in Modern C#

1 Why “Practical OOP” in Modern C# Modern C# is a different language than it was a decade ago. Between records, pattern matching, primary constructors, and the shift toward functional-style immuta

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ClickHouse vs. Cassandra vs. ScyllaDB: Choosing a High-Ingest Database for Real-Time Analytics

ClickHouse vs. Cassandra vs. ScyllaDB: Choosing a High-Ingest Database for Real-Time Analytics

1 Why high-ingest real-time analytics is hard (and worth it) In today’s world of digital services, sensors, user interactions, and complex systems, the demand isn’t just for storing massive volume

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Mobile CI/CD in a Day: GitHub Actions + Fastlane + App Center

Mobile CI/CD in a Day: GitHub Actions + Fastlane + App Center

1 Why “Mobile CI/CD in a Day” (and what changed in 2025) In simply one workday you’ll go from a code push → to build → test → sign → distribute → store-submit a mobile app. That’s the promise: **M

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