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21 Sep 2026 4 min read

Five caching strategies, and what .NET actually gives you for each

Cache-aside, read-through, write-through, write-around, write-back — what problem each one solves, and the concrete .NET 9 / ASP.NET Core building blocks for building it.

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19 Sep 2026 3 min read

Five RAG architectures (and how to pick one)

Plugging a vector DB into an LLM is not a RAG architecture, it's the starting point. Five patterns hybrid, graph, corrective, agentic, multimodal and what each one actually costs.

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15 Sep 2026 4 min read

Monolith, modular monolith, or microservices?

How to pick an architecture for your next project, and why the honest answer usually starts smaller than you expect.

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