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This week: featuring a beginner-friendly LLM explainer, Uber's Tarot platform solving Multiple Knapsack optimization for incentive allocation at scale, Airbnb's Skipper embedded workflow engine for durable execution without external dependencies, and Lyft's end-to-end mapping system for smarter pickups in gated communities.

Learn four ways to manage AI conversation history in .NET: full replay, sliding window, summary buffer, and vector recall. C# code, costs, and trade-offs.

This week: a comprehensive .NET MAUI mobile development interview guide covering framework choices, MVVM, and cross-platform architecture. Netflix introduces the Model Lifecycle Graph a metadata service that makes every ML asset discoverable across business domains. Discord shares a detailed postmortem of their March voice outage, diving deep into Elixir process mailbox overload and Kubernetes safeguards. And Pinterest shows how injecting real-time context signals into sequential recommender models improves ad relevance and targeting.

In this article, we explain what a Large Language Model is, how LLMs work, what they excel at, where they fall short, and how they fit into real software products.

A practical guide to C# mobile development interviews in 2026. Covers .NET MAUI, Xamarin, architecture, performance, UI patterns, and real-world mobile engineering concepts with clear explanations and examples.