System Design
SOLID Without the Dogma: When to Break Each Principle
SOLID is a heuristic, not a checklist. Real-world examples of when each principle helps — and the specific cases where applying it hurts.
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Long-form tutorials and engineering notes on .NET, React, AI/ML, and SaaS architecture.
SOLID is a heuristic, not a checklist. Real-world examples of when each principle helps — and the specific cases where applying it hurts.
Strategy, Decorator, Adapter, Builder, and Mediator — with the C# idioms that make them feel natural rather than ceremonial.
A real production debugging story: the systematic path from "the dashboard is slow" to a 25x speedup. Tools, traces, and the four bottlenecks we found.
Microservices solve specific problems. Adopting them without the prerequisites doubles your operational cost and slows delivery. Here is when to say no.
Three Azure compute options that overlap heavily. The decision tree, cost model, and the specific signals that tell you when to graduate from one to the next.
Layer-by-layer walkthrough of shrinking a .NET 9 production image: multi-stage builds, distroless base, trimming, and the one mistake that wipes out all the gains.