API versioning: evolve your product without surprising integration partners
Evolve business APIs with explicit contracts, compatibility checks, practical migration examples and evidence-based retirement of older versions.
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Offline field-service apps: keep work safe until the office receives it
Design offline field-service workflows with durable drafts, reliable synchronisation, conflict resolution and clear status for technicians and office staff.
EF Core or Dapper? Choose through real application work
Compare EF Core and Dapper using representative queries, transaction requirements, measured performance and the maintenance work your team will own.
CQRS for operational reporting: separate responsibilities deliberately
Assess CQRS for business reporting with clear read models, freshness expectations, recoverable projections and an honest view of operating costs.
When business rules live in spreadsheets, emails and code
Clarify business rules through shared language, concrete examples and deliberate state changes that remain consistent across application entry points.
What to test first in a business application with little test coverage
Choose meaningful tests for a legacy business application by risk, protect critical rules and build maintainable feedback around real changes.
Aspire and developer onboarding: make the first useful run repeatable
Improve developer onboarding with an explicit Aspire application model, useful local data, visible diagnostics and documented deployment differences.
ML.NET for business predictions: prove value before automating decisions
Evaluate ML.NET predictions with clear business decisions, honest data preparation, useful baselines and ongoing monitoring of real outcomes.
AI agents in your ERP: useful actions with explicit approvals
Connect AI agents to ERP tasks through narrow tools, reviewable proposals, explicit approvals and reliable handling of uncertain business outcomes.