Adventures in the Modern Monolith: How do you keep a secret at Tilt?
When 50+ Azure App Service instances restart simultaneously and all reach for the same Key Vault, things break.
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C# String Performance Considerations
In the era of blazing fast compute and memory, it’s easy for the performance characteristics of System objects to feel like a thing of the past.
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From Weekly Manual Slog to Rapid-Fire Releases: How Tilt Revolutionized iOS Deployment
At ~~Empower~~ Tilt, a data-driven fintech startup, our lifeblood is understanding our users and how they interact with our products.
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Removing Foreign Key Constraints against Hot Tables
A seemingly simple FK constraint drop turned into a high-stakes locking issue that threatened database stability.
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The N+1 Problem in Entity Framework Core: A Detective's Guide to Spotting and Fixing It
In this post, Paul Gradie reveals how the notorious N+1 problem in EF Core—where seemingly simple data retrieval turns into a series of inefficient database trips—can be the hidden…
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Technical Debt, Quality, and Trade-offs: Striking the Right Balance
Struggling to balance speed, quality, and technical debt in your software projects?
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INT to BIGINT, a SQL Story
Running out of range on a primary key in SQL Server is a ticking time bomb, especially for high-traffic production tables.
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6 Design Principles for Azure Pipelines
As companies scale, system pressures increase, resulting in challenges like code conflicts and maintenance complexities.
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Server-driven UI from scratch
One of the downsides of mobile app development, compared to backend or web, is the lack of control we have over our apps in the wild.
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How Functional Programming Made Me A Better C# Developer
The boundaries between Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and Functional Programming (FP) are increasingly blurring, creating exciting opportunities for developers.
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Modeling World-Class Delivery Systems
Explore how Empower optimizes software delivery by decoupling build and deployment processes, creating a conceptual language for automation, and reducing delivery times.
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