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05 October 2026

Should every API be protected by machine-to-machine authentication? Building my AWS Starter Kit forced me to question that assumption. The mistake wasn't choosing the wrong authentication mechanism. It was choosing one too early.

24 July 2026

A confession about over-engineering four separate .NET templates — and the .NET Template Engine feature that let me collapse them into one.

26 June 2026

A practical breakdown of Lambda cold starts, SnapStart, DynamoDB latency, and the tuning that actually moved the needle.

18 June 2026

A practical look at integrating DynamoDB into a Clean Architecture solution, the challenges of preserving repository abstractions, and why introducing a dedicated persistence model turned out to be the simpler solution.

14 June 2026

Use Microsoft Template Engine Before Copy-Paste Becomes Your Architecture

03 June 2026

Migration from one email server to another is one of those tasks many engineers/admins try to avoid as long as they can.

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