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Designing Webhook Delivery That Survives Flaky Consumers
Signing, retries, ordering, and dead-lettering: the design decisions that separate reliable webhook delivery from silent event loss.
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Coding & System Design
System design, modern web development with Next.js, React, .NET, Azure, and practical coding guides.
14 articles
7 min read
Server Components vs. Client Components: A Mental Model That Sticks
The hardest part of React Server Components isn't the syntax — it's knowing which kind of component you're writing and why. Here is the mental model that makes the boundary obvious.
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Optimistic UI Updates: Making Apps Feel Instant Without Lying to Users
The like button that responds before the server confirms feels instant. The trick is updating the UI first and reconciling later — and handling the rollback so you never mislead the user.
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Dataverse Plug-in Performance: Avoiding the Slow Plug-in That Times Out
A synchronous plug-in runs inside the user's transaction with a hard time limit. One slow query or external call can break saves for everyone. Here is how to keep plug-ins fast and safe.
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Debouncing and Throttling in React: Taming Expensive Event Handlers
A search box that fires a request on every keystroke, a scroll handler running 60 times a second — these are debounce and throttle problems. The concepts are simple; React makes them subtly tricky.
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Next.js Partial Prerendering: The Production Migration Guide
PPR was the experimental flag in Next.js 15; in 16 it's been folded into Cache Components. Learn how static shells and dynamic holes work, how to migrate incrementally, and how to measure the LCP gains.
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Next.js 16 and React 19: What Actually Matters in 2026
A practical guide to the features that changed how we build React apps — Server Components, the new compiler, and the patterns that stuck.
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Building a Real-Time Dashboard with Next.js, Server-Sent Events, and Supabase
A step-by-step guide to building a live-updating dashboard using Next.js API routes, Server-Sent Events, and Supabase Realtime — with reconnection handling and smooth UI transitions.
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Azure Functions vs Azure Container Apps: Choosing the Right Serverless Model
A detailed comparison of Azure Functions and Azure Container Apps — pricing, cold starts, scaling, runtime support, and a decision flowchart for picking the right one.
9 min read
Rate Limiting and Throttling: Designing APIs That Survive Traffic Spikes
Why every public API needs rate limiting, the four main algorithms compared, implementation in Next.js with Redis, proper HTTP headers, and Azure API Management policies.
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Authentication Patterns for Modern Web Apps: Sessions, JWTs, and OAuth Compared
A practical comparison of session-based auth, JWT auth, and OAuth 2.0 / OIDC — how each works, when to use them, security pitfalls, and recommended patterns for SPAs, server apps, and mobile.
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CQRS in Practice: When It's Worth the Complexity and When It Isn't
A clear-eyed look at Command Query Responsibility Segregation — what it actually is, how to implement it in .NET, when it pays off, and when it's unnecessary complexity.
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Monolith to Microservices: How to Decompose Without Creating a Distributed Monolith
A practical guide to breaking apart a monolith into microservices — identifying boundaries, splitting the database, handling data consistency, and avoiding the traps that turn your migration into a distributed monolith.
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Fixing NuGet Error: Unable to Load the Service Index for Source
A step-by-step guide to diagnosing and resolving NuGet package source errors in Visual Studio and dotnet CLI.