Great article!

Reliability is a design choice, not a given.

Most teams only find this out after the incident.

#reliability #softwareengineering #dotnet

Making everything async won't save you if your consumers can't keep up.

Async shifts the work. It doesn't remove it. Your database, your thread pool, your rate limits — they don't care you're async.
#dotnet #sofwareengineering

Exactly-once delivery doesn't exist. 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐝-𝐭𝐨-𝐞𝐧𝐝.

What you actually need is 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠: + an 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐛𝐨𝐱.

Stop chasing impossible transport guarantees. Engineer deterministic outcomes instead.
#dotnet

That's three different failure modes — and each needs a different tool. 🛠️

⏱️ 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐎𝐔𝐓 → caps how long you'll wait on a single call
🧱 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐊𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃 → isolates capacity per dependency, so one slow service can't sink the rest
🚦 𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 → controls inbound throughput before it hits your internals

Api Versioning - A deep dive

#CSAdvent post 2 for December 22, 2025!

"Api Versioning - A deep dive" by @irina.codes

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#dotnet #csharp

Is a 100% Discount the Same as “Free”? YouTube video by Dylan Beattie

With more and more open source projects switching to some sort of commercial licensing model with discounts for small business and community projects, the question keeps coming up: is a 100% discount the same as "free"?

So I made a video about it. What do you think?

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🎉 Please join us in congratulating Irina Dominte (Scurtu) @irina.codes on being elected to the .NET Foundation Board of Directors! We look forward to your leadership and impact in the .NET community. 💫 #dotnetfoundation

Thank you for your kind words!

The .NET Foundation election results are in!

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APIs in Practice : the road to production-ready | NDC London 2026 Having an API ready for production should mean more than just deploying functionality. Certain architectural aspects are often overlooked, only being considered too late in the process, if at all.

Having an #API ready for production should mean more than just deploying functionality. Don't miss @irina.codes hands-on #workshop "APIs in Practice : the road to production-ready" at #NDCLondon. #Earlybird offer ends today, Friday, October 3rd!

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Messaging Patterns for Modern Software Solutions | NDC Oslo 2025 Modern software systems are becoming ever more distributed and complex, requiring efficient and reliable communication mechanisms to maintain consistency and performance.

Join @irina.codes "Messaging Patterns for Modern Software Solutions" at # NDCOslo, where she will dive into practical use cases and demonstrate how patterns can be leveraged to tackle some challenges in modern #software #architecture!

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Not all rate limiting strategies work the same way! Whether you're preventing DDoS attacks, ensuring fair usage, or controlling expensive operations, choosing the right algorithm is key.

Each method has strengths and trade-offs—so how do you decide? 🤔 #dotnet

Competing consumers

🚀 Just blogged:
Competing Consumers Pattern – The Underrated Key to Handling More Load

Struggling with scaling background jobs or message queues?
This async pattern might be the missing piece in your architecture.

🔗 Read the full post: irina.codes/competing-co...

#AsyncMessaging #dotnet

Logging - it’s about clear, actionable logs that make troubleshooting, debugging, and monitoring easier.
By using structured logging, proper log levels, and central log config, you create efficient, searchable logs that improve tracing & correlation across microservices.
#dotnet #logging

Virtual hugs! I can't even imagine..

Claude 3.7 Now Available in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio - Visual Studio Blog The world of AI is evolving at a breathtaking pace, and today brings an exciting milestone for developers and tech enthusiasts alike. Anthropic’s newest release, Claude 3.7, is now available directly…

Claude 3.7 Now Available in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio.

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#ai #visualstudio #githubcopilot #claudeai #anthropic #aiassistant

Circuit Breaker Pattern 🔧

When services fail, resilient architecture ensures your system doesn’t collapse. It helps prevent repeated failures, improves system stability.
#SoftwareArchitecture #CircuitBreaker #Resilience #Microservices #DevOps #dotnet

🚀 Retry vs. Hedging⚡

When handling failures in distributed systems, two key strategies stand out: Retry and Hedging. But which one is right for your application? 🤔
Let’s discuss! ⬇️ #dotnet #resilience #retry #hedging

See you there!

MassTransit with Azure Service Bus - Error management MassTransit with Azure Service Bus. MassTransit error management in Azure Service Bus.

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#masstransit #azureservicebus #errormanagement #dotnet

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Update ownership and license by dennisdoomen · Pull Request #2943 · fluentassertions/fluentassertions

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