Plugin Architecture in Practice(Part 4) — Versioning, Distribution, and Ecosystem
In the previous three parts, we explored the motivation behind building a plugin system, its structural composition, and the runtime model for loading and ex...
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Plugin Architecture in Practice(Part 3) — Discovery, Hot Loading, and Lifecycle
Once the plugin contract is defined, development can proceed in parallel — but the system still needs a unified way to discover and manage them. Hot swapping...
Plugin Architecture in Practice(Part 2) - Contract, Registration, and Resolution
In complex software systems, true extensibility doesn’t come from dynamically loading components—it comes from well-defined contracts that establish clear bo...
Plugin Architecture in Practice(Part 1) — Extensibility, Composition, and Evolution
The ideas discussed in this article originate from the plugin architecture implemented in AkkaSync, summarizing the design motivations and practical lessons ...
Designing a Lightweight, Plugin-First Data Pipeline Engine with Akka.NET
Data Synchronization Everywhere Data synchronization between business systems is extremely common in real-world software projects. As organizations grow, dat...
Optimizing EF Core Includes with Split Queries: Lessons from Raw SQL Analysis
In EF Core, Include executes JOIN queries to load the main entity and its related data. Excessive or multi-level Include usage can easily lead to performance...
Decoupling by Design: Implementing an Assessment Mechanism with Events
This was my latest practical experience in a real-world project, where I addressed several key challenges in implementing the payee compliance assessment flow.
Thinking in DDD: Understanding Entities, Value Objects, and Aggregates through a Crowdfunding Page
Domain-Driven Design introduces several important modeling objects in the domain model, as follows:
Rethinking SaveChanges: Transactional Boundaries and Best Practices in Entity Framework
In Entity Framework, SaveChanges and SaveChangesAsync are methods provided by DbContext to persist data. They are so commonly used that we rarely question th...
From Confusion to Clarity: Resolving Scoped and Singleton Injection Conflicts
I resolved a subtle issue months ago in a long-running company project that caused business data inconsistency due to confusing code changes. The project use...
Pitfalls of Using ref Variables in LINQ Select with Multiple Enumerations
I work with LINQ almost every day and frequently deal with various operations based on IEnumerable. Since I’ve always found it convenient to use, I never rea...
Streaming Progress Updates in Long-Running ASP.NET Core Requests
This is a feature recently implemented in our project to enhance the user experience. Some time-consuming requests, such as when the backend receives a file ...