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Featured May 2026 · 12 min read

Migrating a 500k-Line .NET Framework Monolith to .NET 8 — Without Breaking Production

After leading three large-scale .NET modernisation projects across European enterprises, we have distilled the key architectural decisions, team dynamics, and risk mitigation strategies that determine whether a migration succeeds or becomes a multi-year nightmare. This is what we wish someone had told us before the first one.

.NET 8 Migration Architecture
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Azure April 2026 · 8 min read

Azure Service Bus vs Event Grid: Which One Should You Actually Use?

Both services handle messaging on Azure — but their use cases are fundamentally different. We break down the architectural patterns, pricing implications, and real-world scenarios where each service shines or falls short.

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Kubernetes March 2026 · 10 min read

GitOps with ArgoCD: Our Production Setup After 18 Months

We have been running ArgoCD in production for 18 months across multiple client environments. Here is what worked, what we changed, and the configuration decisions we would make differently if starting over today.

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Technical Leadership March 2026 · 7 min read

How to Run a Technical Interview That Actually Predicts Job Performance

Most technical interviews test algorithmic trivia, not real engineering judgment. After hiring 30+ senior engineers, here is the interview format we have refined to identify people who can actually lead in production environments.

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.NET February 2026 · 9 min read

Clean Architecture in ASP.NET Core: What Works and What Doesn't in Practice

Clean Architecture is widely recommended but frequently misapplied. Based on our experience across a dozen enterprise codebases, we share the patterns that genuinely improve maintainability — and the ones that create unnecessary complexity.

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DevOps January 2026 · 6 min read

The Infrastructure-as-Code Stack We Recommend for Azure in 2026

Bicep, Terraform, or Pulumi? After using all three in production across Azure environments, we explain when we reach for each tool and why — including the tradeoffs most comparisons ignore.

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Team Augmentation December 2025 · 5 min read

The First 30 Days: How We Onboard Into a New Engineering Team

Joining a new team as an external engineer is high-stakes. The first month determines whether you are seen as a genuine contributor or an expensive distraction. Here is the exact playbook we follow when embedding into a client's engineering organisation.

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