Cloud-Native Development

Cloud-native development represents a fundamental shift in how we design, build, and operate software applications in modern distributed environments. It embraces principles like containerization, microservices architecture, dynamic orchestration, and declarative APIs to create systems that are resilient, scalable, and manageable.

This collection explores the practical aspects of building cloud-native applications with .NET, including containerization strategies with Docker, orchestration with Kubernetes, service-to-service communication patterns, and distributed system design. Topics cover the architectural decisions, trade-offs, and operational challenges teams encounter when adopting cloud-native practices.

The articles examine how cloud-native principles influence application design, from stateless services and external configuration to health checks and graceful degradation. The focus remains on understanding when cloud-native approaches provide genuine benefits versus when traditional architectures remain more appropriate for specific use cases.

Why Your Logging Strategy Fails in Production

Let me tell you what I’ve learned over the years from watching teams deploy logging strategies that looked great on paper and failed spectacularly at 3 AM when production burned.

It’s not that they didn’t know the theory. They’d read the Azure documentation. They’d seen the structured logging samples. They’d studied distributed tracing. The real problem was different: they knew what to do but had no idea why it mattered until production broke catastrophically.