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AKS Networking Clash: kubenet vs. CNI vs. CNI Overlay

Published on 12/3/25 11:45 am by Jendrik Brack

Selecting the right network model is arguably one of the most critical architectural decisions you will make when deploying a Kubernetes cluster on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This choice ripples through nearly every aspect of your cluster’s lifecycle, influencing how pods communicate, how efficiently you use your IP address space, which Azure services integrate seamlessly with your workloads, and ultimately, how well your infrastructure scales to meet future demands. It affects scalability, security posture, operational cost, performance characteristics, available integration options, and your long-term operational flexibility.

.NET Job Scheduling — Quartz.NET for Enterprise Scale

Published on 12/2/25 5:00 pm by Martin Stühmer

Quartz.NET provides advanced scheduling semantics, database-backed clustering, and flexible storage for systems demanding complex workflows. Understand when enterprise features justify operational complexity and how Quartz.NET scales across distributed deployments.

.NET Job Scheduling — Hangfire and Persistent Reliability

Published on 11/27/25 5:00 pm by Martin Stühmer

Hangfire combines persistent job storage, automatic retries, and real-time monitoring to simplify background processing. Learn when database-backed reliability matters and how Hangfire scales from single instances to distributed workers.

.NET Job Scheduling — The Complete Series

Published on 11/25/25 5:00 pm by Martin Stühmer

Background processing in .NET feels simple until invoices stop going out, jobs fire twice because two instances raced, and your retry logic has been hammering a dead endpoint for six hours with no one noticing. This series covers five frameworks — Hangfire, Quartz.NET, Coravel, NCronJob, and TickerQ — and maps each one to the scenarios where it actually fits, so you stop picking tools by GitHub star count and start picking them by the problems they solve.

.NET Job Scheduling — The Landscape

Published on 11/25/25 5:00 pm by Martin Stühmer

Explore the spectrum of .NET job scheduling from lightweight in-memory solutions to enterprise-grade distributed systems. Understand which approach fits your operational model and why background processing architecture matters.