Tag: technical-tuesday

All the articles with the tag "technical-tuesday".

• Corrupt DLLs on App Service, and the three safety nets that missed them

  6 Oct, 2026

  Assembly load failures after every deploy — and slots don't fix it. Why the warm-up probe was blind by design, and what a health check actually buys you.

• Proving it was Azure's fault, not ours

  15 Sep, 2026

  A deployment keeps failing intermittently and Azure is the suspect. How to prove it's the platform, not your code — and how to know when you've proven it.

• The dual-write problem & the outbox pattern

  8 Sep, 2026

  Saving to your database and publishing a message look like one step. They're two, and the gap between them is where you lose data. The outbox pattern closes it.

• Deployment coupling

  4 Aug, 2026

  You split into services so each could ship alone. Then a shared contracts package quietly stitched the deployments back together — that's deployment coupling.