Editor's note
I kept this issue deliberately mixed: performance, architecture, data access, tooling, and security all show up here. The parallel code piece and the cache stampede article are a good pair if you care about why “faster” code sometimes isn’t. I also liked the EF Core polymorphic relationships writeup and the MSSQL VS Code extension update because both are practical and immediately useful.
Parallel code, Redis caching, and EF Core
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Jasen's take on today's picks
Why Parallel Code Often Runs Slower
Parallelism can surprise you: more threads isn’t automatically more throughput.
Every Note-Taking App Tries Too Hard. I Fixed It.
A practical Redis caching guide, plus a separate cache stampede article that covers the nasty edge cases.
DotnetFastMCP: Enforcing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for Critical AI Tools ️
MFA for AI tools is the sort of guardrail teams need before agents start doing real work.
How to Implement Redis Caching in ASP.NET Core?
Vertical slices are clean until duplication creeps in; this piece shows where to draw the line.
The Million-Request Crash: Taming the “Cache Stampede” in Distributed Systems
The MSSQL VS Code update is a nice productivity bump for people living in SQL and .NET.
Cracking the Code of Serverless Design: Patterns that Scale and Patterns that Fail
EF Core polymorphic relationships are tricky; three approaches gives you options before you paint yourself into a corner.
How to Avoid Code Duplication in Vertical Slice Architecture in .NET
Async/await internals is a solid refresher if you want to remember what the compiler is actually generating.
MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Query Profiler, ADS Migration Toolkit & More
DumpLinq is the kind of low-level debugging tool you hope you never need, until you do.











