Articles by Saurav Kumar

Learn how to diagnose and fix MessagePack serialization and contract compatibility issues between Azure SignalR serverless backends and clients.

Learn how to configure Azure Key Vault for multi-cloud .NET deployments using provider abstractions, the configuration pipeline, DefaultAzureCredential, and least-privilege access.

Learn how to build a .NET service that evaluates workload requirements, obtains Azure infrastructure recommendations, and validates them before deployment.

Learn how to model workload requirements and use an infrastructure optimization SDK in .NET to rank, explain, and validate Azure VM size recommendations.

Learn how to identify slow tests, analyze setup, execution, and teardown costs, track duration trends, and reduce CI pipeline delays without losing coverage.

Learn how to collect, report, and compare .NET code coverage in daily CI/CD runs using Coverlet, ReportGenerator, and GitHub Actions.

Learn how to keep Git repositories responsive when thousands of AI agents push, fetch, and merge changes through scalable storage, ref coordination, and merge queues.

Learn how to design an MCP gateway that centrally manages tool discovery, routing, authentication, authorization, and observability for large internal AI agent tool ecosystems.

Learn when to replace environment-variable configuration with a central store and how to design secure, versioned, cached configuration for distributed ASP.NET Core applications.

Learn when to replace environment-variable configuration with a central store and how to design, secure, version, cache, and refresh settings for distributed applications.

Learn how offset and keyset pagination behave when database records change, and how stable sorting and cursors keep ASP.NET Core API results reliable.

Compare .NET Background Services and durable workflows, including state persistence, retries, recovery, and when each approach suits production business processes.

Learn how to prepare and deploy a GPU-enabled PyTorch container to Google Cloud Run, configure resources, and verify GPU availability.

Learn how to build and test reliable ASP.NET Core webhook receivers with durable event storage, duplicate-delivery protection, retries, and background processing.

Learn how Cloudflare Durable Objects coordinate shared state across requests, with a persistent counter example using Workers and Durable Object storage.

Learn how to use jdeps to find internal JDK API, package, class, and module dependencies before upgrading a Java application.

Learn how Apache Iceberg partition evolution changes a table's partition strategy for new writes without immediately rewriting historical data files.

Learn how to upgrade Apache Flink streaming jobs safely using checkpoints and savepoints while preserving state, operator compatibility, and processing progress.

Learn how to use Composer platform configuration and check-platform-reqs to detect PHP version and extension mismatches before deployment.

Learn how Laravel Octane's long-lived workers can leak request-specific user or tenant data, and how to safely manage service lifetimes and state.

Learn how to use Pydantic Settings to load, validate, and protect Python configuration values from environment variables and .env files.

Learn how to use FastAPI lifespan to initialize, share, and safely close HTTPX clients and other application resources during startup and shutdown.

Learn how CSS Anchor Positioning places popovers and tooltips relative to triggers, and how it works with the HTML Popover API without JavaScript coordinate calculations.