Author: Abhishek Kumar
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✍️ By Abhishek Kumar | #FirstCrazyDeveloper This document explores two powerful patterns in Azure for improving application availability: Zone Redundancy (ZR) within a region and Multi-Region High Availability (MR-HA) across regions. It provides a decision matrix to help you choose the right approach based on cost, latency, RTO/RPO, and operational complexity, along with reference architectures,…
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🔹 Why This Blog? Most developers still use Visual Studio for .NET development, but VSCode is lightweight, cross-platform, and perfect for cloud-native/containerized projects. Enterprises moving toward Docker + DevOps pipelines prefer VSCode-based workflows. This guide provides a step-by-step walkthrough of setting up .NET 9 development in Visual Studio Code (VSCode), using a real-world API project…
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✍️ By Abhishek Kumar | #FirstCrazyDeveloper Artificial Intelligence has rapidly evolved over the last decade, and Large Language Models (LLMs) have become the core drivers of this revolution. From OpenAI’s GPT family to Meta’s LLaMA, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and more — each ecosystem brings unique capabilities tailored for developers, researchers, and enterprises. In this…
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✍️ By Abhishek Kumar | #FirstCrazyDeveloper As Generative AI takes the spotlight across industries, the need for structured, multi-step reasoning and tool-enhanced agents is more critical than ever. In this blog, I’ll explain how you can integrate LangChain with your Azure OpenAI-powered MCP Agent—not just in Python, but with a C# equivalent, too. This blog…
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✍️ By Abhishek Kumar | #FirstCrazyDeveloper Every successful software project has one thing in common: a strong architectural foundation.Choosing the right architecture is like picking the right blueprint before building a skyscraper—it determines whether your system scales seamlessly or collapses under pressure. Let’s explore 6 software architectural styles that have shaped modern applications, with real-world…
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✍️ By Abhishek Kumar | #FirstCrazyDeveloper Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform that powers some of the largest data-driven applications in the world. From Netflix’s recommendation engine to LinkedIn’s activity feed, Kafka has become the backbone of real-time data pipelines and event-driven architectures. But what exactly makes Kafka so powerful? Let’s break it…
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✍️ Abhishek Kumar | #FirstCrazyDeveloper APIs are the backbone of modern applications, enabling different systems, services, and devices to communicate seamlessly. Over the years, several API protocols and communication styles have emerged, each suited for specific use cases — from mobile apps fetching user data to IoT devices streaming sensor events. In this blog, let’s…
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✍️ Abhishek Kumar | #FirstCrazyDeveloper When building large-scale systems, the challenge isn’t just about writing clean code—it’s about designing for scale, resilience, and performance. This is where system design heuristics come into play. They act as guiding principles to make smart decisions when architecting software. In this blog, we’ll break down 15 key heuristics, explain…
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✍️ New Blog by Abhishek Kumar | hashtag#FirstCrazyDeveloper Performance problems in .NET applications are often invisible. Your app may look fine in dev or QA, but under real-world load, hidden inefficiencies silently drain CPU, memory, and throughput. By the time you notice slow response times or cloud bills shooting up, it’s usually too late. In…
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✍️ by Abhishek Kumar | #FirstCrazyDeveloper Cloud applications today cannot afford downtime. Whether you’re running a critical banking system, a healthcare application, or an e-commerce website, even a few minutes of outage can cause massive financial and reputational damage. That’s why reliability and high availability (HA) are key pillars in Azure architecture. Microsoft Azure provides…
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