Blog Posts
ESPN-Scale Sports Platform Architecture for 10M Concurrent Fans | Real-Time Scores & Notifications
- Sudhir Mangla
- Practical Design , Data Engineering
- 15 Dec, 2025
1 The High-Concurrency Challenge: Defining the "World Cup" Scale An ESPN-scale sports platform that supports 10 million concurrent users, delivers live scores in real time, and sends **ove
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Refactoring Legacy C# Codebases: From `async void` and `ArrayList` to Modern, Safe C#
- Sudhir Mangla
- C# , Clean Architecture
- 12 Dec, 2025
1 The Strategic Modernization Roadmap: Philosophy Over Syntax Refactoring legacy C# code is rarely about swapping old syntax for new syntax. Experienced teams know the real problem runs much deepe
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Building Secure Enterprise APIs with .NET, Azure API Management, and Entra ID (Azure AD)
- Sudhir Mangla
- Azure , Security
- 11 Dec, 2025
1 Introduction: The Zero Trust Mandate for Modern APIs Modern enterprise systems depend on APIs to connect business processes, exchange data, and support distributed applications. These APIs opera
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Building a Plugin-Ready Modular Monolith in .NET: Feature Isolation, Module Discovery, and Versioning
- Sudhir Mangla
- Software Architecture , .NET
- 10 Dec, 2025
1 The Strategic Shift: From Monolithic Mud to Plugin Architectures Most enterprise systems start life as a straightforward monolith — one codebase, one deployment, and one shared runtime. That sim
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Hotel Booking Systems That Scale: Inventory Management, Double-Booking Prevention, and Dynamic Pricing with .NET
- Sudhir Mangla
- Practical Design , .NET
- 08 Dec, 2025
1 Architectural Blueprint: Designing for 50k Daily Bookings A hotel booking system at scale is not “just a database with some CRUD screens.” Once you support tens of thousands of bookings a day, t
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On-Device AI for Mobile: Tiny LLMs, Vision Models, and Private Inference
- Sudhir Mangla
- Mobile Development , AI & Machine Learning
- 06 Dec, 2025
1 The Strategic Foundation: The Hybrid Compute Spectrum Mobile AI systems now have three realistic places where computation can run: the cloud, the edge (MEC), and directly on the device. Each tie
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Operational Dashboards at Milli-Scale: Materialized Views, Columnstore & Redis Read Models
- Sudhir Mangla
- Data Analytics , Data Engineering
- 05 Dec, 2025
1 The Latency Gap: Why Standard Queries Fail at Scale Operational dashboards succeed only if they stay fast. When a dispatcher refreshes a fleet view or a support agent checks live customer metric
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Hybrid Cloud .NET: Connecting On-Prem Systems to Azure with VNETs, Private Endpoints, and VPN/ExpressRoute
- Sudhir Mangla
- Azure , Cloud Architecture
- 03 Dec, 2025
1 The Hybrid Reality: Scenario Definition and Architecture Goals Most enterprises don’t live in a single environment anymore. They run a mix of legacy systems that can’t easily move to the cloud a
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Building Zoom at Scale: WebRTC, Selective Forwarding Units, and 50 Million Daily Meeting Participants in .NET
- Sudhir Mangla
- Practical Design , Real Time Systems
- 02 Dec, 2025
1 Architectural Foundations: Mesh vs. MCU vs. SFU Building a real-time video platform that supports 1,000-person meetings or tens of millions of daily participants forces you to confront architect
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Code Review Copilot for .NET Repos: Combining Roslyn Analyzers, GitHub, and Azure OpenAI
- Sudhir Mangla
- AI & Machine Learning , Generative AI
- 01 Dec, 2025
1 The Era of Hybrid Code Review: Beyond Static Analysis Software teams rely on pull requests to maintain code quality and consistency, but expectations around PR review have grown significantly. R
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