Architecture

Retiring Legacy .NET Projects — Balancing Risk, Cost, and Forward Value

In every mature .NET landscape, legacy projects represent both heritage and hazard. They once powered entire business models — now they silently consume time, budget, and attention. The decision to retire or modernize them isn’t about technology fashion. It’s about sustaining the organization’s capacity for value creation.

TUnit — A Pragmatic Evaluation for .NET Teams

TUnit brings compile-time test discovery and native AOT support to .NET testing — but is it ready for enterprise adoption? A pragmatic analysis of performance gains, tooling maturity, and migration timing for teams evaluating alternatives to MSTest, xUnit, and NUnit.

.NET 10 RC 1 is Knocking at the Door: Architectural Impact, C# 14, and Performance

.NET 10 RC 1 is knocking at the door, marking the first release candidate and offering the .NET community a detailed preview of what’s to come in the next LTS cycle. While not the final release, RC 1 is “go-live” supported and represents the feature-complete platform that will soon become .NET 10 LTS. In this article, I’ll try to give a rough overview of the architectural impact of .NET 10 RC 1, focusing on the latest C# 14 features, under-the-hood performance improvements, and strategic considerations for the upcoming LTS.

Instruction by Design: Transforming ADRs into Actionable AI Guidance

Discover how to transform architectural decision records (ADRs) into actionable, AI-ready guidance for teams and copilots—boosting consistency, onboarding, and automation in your development workflow.