The same four-part shape keeps appearing across StyloBot: establish a base, retain the useful delta, measure drift, and consolidate when the evidence warrants it. Compression is not a component; it is a property of the whole system. The behavioural model…

Signal Shingle: a novel architecture for high-performance ASP.NET multi-widget sites

Part of the Stylo.Bot release series. Behaviour-Aware ASP.NET UI covers the server-rendered dashboard surface; Finding and Fixing Unbounded Growth covers the reliability discipline behind bounded state; Learning to Get Faster covers the earlier adaptive-cache…

StyloBot Release Series: Finding and Fixing Unbounded Growth in Long-Running .NET Services

Long-running services tend to slowly drift toward unbounded memory. Here's how I find that drift, how I think about fixing it without papering over it, and a worked example from StyloBot's vector similarity layer that took it from 13 GB on the Large Object…

StyloBot Release Series: Learning to Get Faster

Heads up: this one is for the nerds. It's a deep technical dive into StyloBot's adaptive learning system (EWMA updates, hysteresis thresholds, verdict caching, variance watchdogs), with real code from Mostlylucid.BotDetection and pointers to the equivalent…

Data Access in .NET: Comparing ORMs and Mapping Strategies (Part 2 - Dapper, Raw SQL, and Hybrid Approaches)

Welcome to Part 2 of our comprehensive guide to data access in .NET! In Part 1, we explored Entity Framework Core in depth, including SQL generation, common pitfalls, and that critical warning about proxies and caching. In this article, we'll explore the…

Data Access in .NET: Comparing ORMs and Mapping Strategies (Part 1 - Entity Framework Core)

When building .NET applications, one of the most important architectural decisions you'll make is how to handle data access and object mapping. The .NET ecosystem offers a rich variety of approaches, from full-featured ORMs to bare-metal SQL execution. Each…

Load Testing ASP.NET Core Applications with k6: Practical Implementation

Now that you understand the fundamentals of k6 and performance testing, it's time to put that knowledge into practice. This article walks you through writing real tests, integrating them into CI/CD pipelines, and using profiling tools to identify and fix…

Load Testing ASP.NET Core Applications with k6: Introduction

Your application works perfectly on your laptop. Unit tests pass. Integration tests pass. You deploy to production, and suddenly everything grinds to a halt. Five hundred real users hit your homepage simultaneously, and your server starts returning 503 errors.…

Modern CQRS and Event Sourcing in .NET: Doing It Properly

NOTE: This is an old article I forgot to release. Here it is, enjoy! I updated it but may be some issues I missed. CQRS and Event Sourcing - two patterns that are often mentioned together but frequently misunderstood. In this article, I'm going to show you how…

SQL Server 2000 Indexed Views

Though I'd point to an excellent article on Indexed Views. For those who don't know what these are, well, if you have a fairly complex database schema, you can gain a great deal of performance benefits by aggregating the output of common queries into indexed…