Blog Posts

Partitioning at Scale: A Deep Dive into Range, Hash, and Sliding Windows for SQL Server and Azure SQL

1 The Great Divide: Why Partitioning is a Pillar of Modern Data Architecture Partitioning has become a cornerstone technique for data platforms that handle billions of rows. The problem is not jus

Building Resilient Email Delivery Systems: SendGrid vs Azure Communication Services with Polly in .NET

1 The High Stakes of Email Delivery Email remains the backbone of digital communication for critical workflows: password resets, payment confirmations, fraud alerts, onboarding sequences, and serv

Rust for Reliability: Why Systems Teams Are Rewriting Hot Paths in 2025

Sudhir Mangla
Systems Programming , Performance Optimization
21 Sep, 2025

1 The Tectonic Shift: Why Now? In 2025, few technical debates spark as much pragmatic urgency as the adoption of Rust for reliability and hot-path rewrites. For years, Rust was the darling of deve

The AI Test Engineer: Automating Test Case Generation and Documentation with LLMs

1 Introduction: The New Frontier of Quality Assurance Quality assurance has always been the backbone of reliable software delivery. Yet, despite decades of progress in automation, a stubborn bottl

The Agent-Driven Spec: From Product Requirement Document to Production-Ready Tech Specifications in Days, Not Weeks

1 Introduction: The End of Ambiguity Product development in software has always carried a paradox: the more detail you add to requirements, the more room there seems to be for misinterpretation. E

Bandit-Driven Feature Flags in ASP.NET Core (with Azure ML)

1 Introduction: The Evolution from "If" Statements to Intelligent Decisions Software teams have long relied on feature flags and A/B testing to control rollouts and optimize user experiences. At t

Building a Production-Ready Job Scheduler: Hangfire vs Quartz.NET vs Azure Functions Timer Triggers

1 The Silent Workhorses: Why Background Job Processing is a Cornerstone of Modern Applications When most users interact with a modern application, they rarely think about the moving parts behind t

Building Event Sourcing with EventStore and .NET: From Theory to Production

1 Introduction: Beyond the Limits of State Software engineering has always been about managing change—capturing how things evolve over time. Yet, for decades, we’ve largely defaulted to CRUD (Crea

Dapper Plus Entity Framework: Hybrid Data Access for Maximum Performance

1 Introduction: The ORM Performance vs. Productivity Dilemma Modern software projects increasingly operate under two seemingly opposing forces: the need for rapid development and the demand for un

The Claude Code: From Concept to Container: An Architect's Guide to the AI-Powered SDLC

1 Introduction: The Paradigm Shift in Software Development Software development has always been shaped by new abstractions—assembly to high-level languages, bare-metal to cloud, monoliths to micro