.NET Development and Framework

.NET CLI 10 – Microsoft Finally Realizes DevOps Exists

The .NET CLI? Reliable. Boring. You run dotnet build, dotnet test, dotnet publish, done. Real DevOps work happens in Dockerfiles, CI/CD configs, and specialized tools. The CLI does its job but was never built for actual operational workflows.

.NET 10 changes this. Four additions that sound minor but fix real problems I’ve hit in production pipelines for years: native container publishing, ephemeral tool execution, better cross-platform packaging, and machine-readable schemas. Not flashy. Not keynote material. But they’re the kind of improvements that save hours every week once you’re running them at scale.

Will they replace your current workflow? Depends on what you’re building. Let’s look at what actually changed.

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.

Stop Typing: The .NET CLI Tab Completion You've Been Missing

One command to transform your .NET CLI workflow—tab completion so responsive you’ll wonder how you survived without it Finally, a productivity boost that’s actually worth your time

.NET Job Scheduling — Choosing the Right Framework

Synthesizing the series into actionable guidance with feature comparisons, suitability ratings, and decision frameworks. Select the scheduler that matches your operational model, infrastructure constraints, and team priorities.

.NET Job Scheduling — TickerQ and Modern Architecture

TickerQ represents the next generation of .NET schedulers with compile-time validation, reflection-free execution, and SignalR-powered monitoring. Understand when modern architecture patterns and performance optimizations justify adopting newer frameworks over established alternatives.

Power of Ten Rules: More Relevant Than Ever for .NET

Gerard Holzmann’s Power of Ten rules prevented spacecraft failures and exposed Toyota’s fatal throttle bugs. Four rules transfer directly to C# with superior enforcement. Three become irrelevant thanks to the managed runtime.

The verdict: These principles aren’t just valid. They’re finally enforceable without heroic manual effort.

.NET Job Scheduling — NCronJob and Native Minimalism

NCronJob leverages IHostedService for lightweight scheduling with zero external dependencies. Understand when minimal infrastructure and native ASP.NET Core integration outweigh advanced features for cloud-native architectures.

.NET Job Scheduling — Coravel and Fluent Simplicity

Coravel prioritizes developer velocity with fluent APIs, zero infrastructure, and integrated features like queuing and caching. Understand when convenience and rapid iteration trump persistence and clustering for practical application development.

.NET Job Scheduling — Quartz.NET for Enterprise Scale

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

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 Landscape

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.

NetEvolve.HealthChecks 5.0: 27+ Targeted Probes, Zero Boilerplate

NetEvolve.HealthChecks 5.0 is a decisive expansion—broader coverage scope, less boilerplate.

New domain‑specific packages extend monitoring across cloud services, messaging platforms, graph, time‑series, vector and AI backends. In parallel, the former inheritance‑driven shared base library (abstract classes + repetitive DI wiring) was replaced by purpose-built source generators—removing manual registration churn and consolidating intent. Release 5.0 also formalizes full support for .NET 10—aligning with current trimming and analyzer improvements.