Performance

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.

Bad dev experience costs teams hours every day. Learn what DX is, why it matters nowadays, and practical fixes you can ship Monday. For devs of all levels.

This part of C# / .NET interview questions and answers covering modern desktop development: WinUI 3, .NET MAUI, Avalonia UI, MVVM architecture with CommunityToolkit, performance optimization, data storage with EF Core and SQLite, secure credentials, background sync, MSIX packaging, and auto-update strategies. 

60+ C# / .NET testing interview questions with code examples. Covers unit testing, integration testing, gRPC, contracts, distributed systems, Playwright, and performance.

This week: Cloudflare’s MCP code mode, Uber’s database federation, Wix’s shift from prompting to AI management, and LinkedIn’s LLM-based ranking at scale.

Weekend Reading: A weekly roundup of interesting Software Architecture and Programming articles from tech companies. Find fresh ideas and insights every weekend.

In this article, we explore microservices and distributed systems interview questions and answers, and what every .NET engineer should know, from service boundaries and BFF to sagas, events, service discovery, and communication patterns.

In this article, we explain what distributed deadlocks are, how they differ from blocking and slowness, the main types of distributed deadlocks, and practical strategies to prevent them in real systems.

Weekend Reading: A weekly roundup of interesting Software Architecture and Programming articles from tech companies. Find fresh ideas and insights every weekend.

A practical guide to the Outbox and Inbox patterns for reliable asynchronous messaging in distributed systems. Learn how Outbox ensures safe event publishing and Inbox ensures idempotent event processing, with step-by-step diagrams and implementation insights.

This chapter explores NoSQL Databases questions that  .NET engineers should be able to answer in an interview.

 Walk through consistency models in distributed systems: Strong, bounded staleness, session, causal, and eventual consistency, explain how they work with examples, and help you understand when each model makes sense.

In this article, we explain the CAP theorem in simple terms: what Consistency, Availability, and Partition Tolerance mean, why you can’t have all three, and how real systems balance them in practice.

This week, we dive into SQL performance tips, Uber’s approach to fault-tolerant analytics, and how TikTok cut AI costs in half with smart caching.

Practical SQL best practices for developers and DBAs. Learn how to design clean schemas, write readable and efficient queries, avoid common mistakes, and keep your database secure and fast

Weekly tech digest: pagination strategies for large datasets, Uber’s rebuilt Apache Pinot query architecture, and Meta’s ML-based notification ranking system for Instagram.

Learn efficient SQL pagination techniques: offset, keyset, cursor, snapshot, hybrid & more. Understand trade-offs, use cases, and best practices.

Overview of the Microsoft Orleans framework: virtual actors, grains, runtime, and use cases. Build scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems in  .NET.

A beginner-friendly guide to understanding ACID in databases. Learn Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability in simple terms, using SQL examples and real-world analogies, for junior developers.

This week's Weekly tech digest features HealthTech trends, Netflix’s GraphQL evolution, Uber’s high-scale storage system, and Wix’s lessons from AI refactoring.