Tags Overview for All Blog Topics

Cloud native

Cloud-native is the part of a system that survives a node restart, a region failover, and a container image swap without anyone logging into a server. The label gets attached to a lot of architectures that fail at least one of those tests. The articles here treat cloud-native less as a marketing category and more as a set of properties — declarative configuration, externalized state, replaceable instances, observable behavior — that a .NET workload either has or does not have.

Cloud Storage

Storage architecture decisions fundamentally shape application performance, scalability, and cost structures. Cloud storage encompasses diverse services optimized for different data types and access patterns.

Code Quality

“Quality” is the word teams reach for when a codebase frustrates them and nobody wants to argue about specifics. The articles in this collection try to put specifics back: which metric actually predicts maintainability, which Clean Code rule survives contact with a real change request, which analyzer warning is signal and which is decoration. Quality without a measurement attached is taste, and taste does not survive a team rotation.

Compliance

Compliance is not a separate activity from software development. It is engineering discipline codified into standards, controls, and measurable requirements that developers can implement, test, and verify in code.

Configuration

Configuration management handles app settings, infrastructure parameters, and environment values across multiple formats. JSON, YAML, TOML—each format has different trade-offs, validation needs, and ecosystem support.