Blog Posts

Modernizing Stored Procedure-Heavy Applications: When to Move Logic to .NET

1 The Legacy Debt: Understanding the Stored Procedure Gravity Most enterprise systems built between 2000 and 2018 relied heavily on stored procedures (SPs) as the primary home for business logic.

Claude Code in 2026: A Practical End-to-End Workflow Across the SDLC

1 The Agentic Shift: Software Engineering with Claude Code Software engineering is evolving, but not in the way most trend pieces describe. Teams still write code, review pull requests, and run pr

The Power Grid Explained: How Electricity Travels from Power Plant to Your Outlet in Milliseconds

1 The Invisible Speed of Light: Introduction to the Grid Electricity feels instant. You flip a switch, and the light turns on with no noticeable delay. What makes that possible isn’t stored energy

Redis Beyond Caching: Streams, Pub/Sub, and Data Structures for Real-Time Applications

1 The Paradigm Shift: Redis as a Primary Multi-Model Database Redis is no longer just a fast in-memory cache sitting in front of a “real” database. Many teams now run Redis as a primary, latency-c

Building Webhooks in ASP.NET Core: Delivery Guarantees, Retries, and Security

1 Architectural Foundations of Modern Webhook Systems Webhook systems look simple from the outside—“send an HTTP POST when something changes.” In practice, that mental model breaks down quickly on

Outbox Pattern in .NET: The Missing Piece After Idempotent APIs

Sudhir mangla
Event Driven Architecture , Microservices
21 Jan, 2026

1 The Dual Write Dilemma: Why Idempotency is Not Enough Distributed systems usually don’t fail because of obvious bugs. They fail because two things that must happen together are handled separat

Python Monorepo with uv, Ruff, and Pants: Modern Tooling for Large Codebases

1 Python Monorepo with uv, Ruff, and Pants: Modern Tooling for Large Codebases Large Python codebases tend to break in the same ways. Dependency resolution slows down until it becomes a daily anno

SurveyMonkey-Scale Platform: Branching Logic, Real-Time Analytics, and 100 Million Responses Per Month

Sudhir Mangla
Practical Design , Software Architecture
16 Jan, 2026

1 SurveyMonkey-Scale Platform: Branching Logic, Real-Time Analytics, and 100 Million Responses Per Month This section establishes the architectural baseline for a survey platform operating at Surv

The Valet Key Pattern on Azure: Secure Direct Uploads with SAS and ASP.NET Core

1 The Scalability Wall: From Gatekeeper to Valet Key Large file uploads are one of the fastest ways to expose weaknesses in an API architecture. Uploading a 1GB or 5GB file through an ASP.NET Core

Real-Time Analytics with SignalR and InfluxDB: Building a Production Metrics Dashboard

1 Architectural Foundations for High-Throughput Analytics Modern production systems emit metrics continuously. CPU usage, request latency, cache efficiency, queue depth, and IoT sensor values are