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Notes from the field.

Occasional posts on .NET, distributed systems, identity, and the operational details that decide whether an architecture survives contact with a real production environment. New posts land roughly monthly.

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Architecture · 06 May 2026

Migrating a .NET monolith to microservices: what I'd do differently

Lessons from a real .NET monolith split: extract one bounded context first, defer the database split, and treat tracing as load-bearing infrastructure.

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12 MAY 2026

How Docker Desktop's Crash Recovery Became a Restart Loop

Docker Desktop got stuck in an unbreakable restart loop after WSL2 crashed due to a backup feature silently restoring broken socket files. The fix involved renaming directories instead of deleting files.
DockerWSL2Windowsdebuggingtroubleshooting
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12 APR 2026

Why I chose Duende Identity Server

Trade-offs between ASP.NET Core Identity, the IdentityServer4 fork, managed providers, and Duende — and where Duende is the right call.
Security dotnetidentityoidcsecurity
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20 MAR 2026

Aspire for orchestrating .NET services in Docker

What .NET Aspire actually solves for local development, how it compares to docker compose, and where its responsibilities end.
Tooling dotnetaspiredockertooling
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