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Explore durable AI agents, practical AI development workflows, and free LLM tradeoffs. Plus C# pipeline benchmarks, EF Core performance, RAG security, and career advice.
Measure C# pipeline parallelism and throughput across sequential, async, item, stage, and data-parallel models without inventing performance claims or results.
Build a bounded TPL Dataflow pipeline in .NET 10 with explicit capacity, concurrency, ordering, cancellation, coordinated faults, and terminal completion.
This week covers .NET pipeline design, EF Core specifications, and practical RAG evaluation. Plus videos on AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, and software engineering careers.
Compare Pipeline, Chain of Responsibility, and ASP.NET Core middleware by transformation, handler selection, continuation, ordering, and short-circuiting.
Learn how to unit test C# processing pipeline behavior with deterministic checks for order, rejection, faults, cancellation, capacity, drain, and cleanup.
Learn how to register ordered pipeline stages with Microsoft DI, choose safe service lifetimes, create background scopes, and avoid captive dependencies.
