Why this question keeps coming up Sooner or later, every team building more than one service asks: “How do these services talk to each other without being glued together?” The usual answer is a message broker, and then the argument starts. Someone says Kafka, someone says RabbitMQ, and the Azure person on the team says … Read more
Reading time: about 10 minutes The problem Kafka solves Picture a small online store. A customer clicks “Place Order,” and the Order service has to: The first version is usually the obvious one: the Order service calls each of these directly. It works, until the email provider has a slow afternoon and checkout starts timing … Read more
If you have worked on a backend application, chances are you have used a hash table even if you didn’t explicitly think about it. A Dictionary<TKey, TValue> in C# is a hash table. A cache backed by Redis relies heavily on key-based lookup. A database index is designed around the same broader idea: make finding … Read more
In modern web application development, scalability and efficient resource utilization are key. ASP.NET Core gives us powerful tools to build high-throughput servers, and one of the most impactful features for performance is asynchronous programming using async and await. In this article, we will explore how async/await works specifically with the ThreadPool in ASP.NET Core and … Read more
When you tap an app, search a site, or stream a show, the result appears to be instantaneous. That polish is the work of system design: the craft of deciding how pieces of software fit together so the whole behaves reliably, quickly, and predictably at whatever scale you need. If you’re new and want to … Read more