CPU looks fine while the queue drowns
Monday morning traffic dumps forty minutes of outbox events into RabbitMQ after a weekend maintenance window. Three consumer pods sit at twenty-two percent…
When the image is the bill of materials
Your security team asks which OpenSSL build sits inside the API pod running in production. The on-call engineer opens the registry tag,…
Every React plus .NET programme eventually hits the same wall: the SPA talks to four microservices, stores tokens in browser storage, and implements retry logic in three hooks that disagree.…
Transactional outbox relays in .NET are straightforward until they are not. You insert a row, a background worker publishes to RabbitMQ, the consumer processes the event. The fragile piece is…
Redis cache-aside is the default pattern on .NET APIs for good reason: it is simple, observable, and fast when keys are warm. It has a well-known failure mode that only…
Minimal APIs let you ship an endpoint in ten lines. They also let you rename a query parameter on a Friday and break twelve downstream consumers on Monday, because nobody…