Editor's note
I pulled together a pretty mixed issue this time: some practical ASP.NET Core pieces, a few architecture deep-dives, and a couple of AI-adjacent posts. The middleware and allocation articles are especially useful if you’re tuning request pipelines, while the DDD and distributed patterns pieces are good refreshers for larger systems.
ASP.NET Core, patterns, and AI context
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Jasen's take on today's picks
From Spec to Santa: My C#‑Powered Christmas Story Generator Experiment
A fun holiday build with C# and AI to start things off.
MediatR Implementation: The Industry-Standard Way to Build Serious .NET APIs
A solid refresher on why MediatR and middleware still matter in real APIs.
Event-Driven Architecture Without the Chaos
Good cautionary reading on event-driven and clean-architecture overreach.
Why Most Clean Architecture Implementations Fail in .NET
Nice practical performance pieces on LINQ, async, and allocations.
Anatomy of an API: an existential crisis with AsExisting()
Tenant-aware auth and distributed patterns are the sort of articles teams bookmark.













