Last year, I inherited a .NET AI application that was struggling. Response times averaged 2.3 seconds, costs were spiraling, and users were complaining. After three months of optimization, we cut latency by 87% and reduced costs by 72%. Here’s what I learned about optimizing .NET AI applications for production. Figure 1: .NET AI Performance Optimization […]
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ML.NET for Custom AI Models: When to Use ML.NET vs Cloud APIs
Six months ago, I faced a critical decision: build a custom ML model with ML.NET or use cloud APIs. The project required real-time fraud detection with zero latency tolerance. Cloud APIs were too slow. ML.NET was the answer. But when should you use ML.NET vs cloud APIs? After building 15+ production ML systems, here’s what […]
Read more →Building Production AI Applications with .NET 8 and C# 12
When .NET 8 and C# 12 were released, I was skeptical. After 15 years building enterprise applications, I’d seen framework updates come and go. But this release changed everything for AI development. Let me show you how to build production AI applications with .NET 8 and C# 12—using actual C# code, not Python wrappers. Figure […]
Read more →.NET 6 Linq Improvements: MaxBy and MinBy
A small but frequent annoyance in LINQ was finding the object with the max value. Previously, we had doing `OrderByDescending(x => x.Val).First()`, which is O(N log N). .NET 6 adds `MaxBy` and `MinBy`. This is O(N) and much more readable. Other additions include `Chunk()` for splitting lists into batches.
Read more →Blazor in .NET 6: Dynamic Components
.NET 6 Blazor introduces “, allowing you to render a component whose type is selected at runtime. No more massive switch statements in render trees. Usage Use Cases Plugin systems where component types are registered dynamically. Dashboard builders with user-selectable widgets. Key Takeaways Combine with `System.Reflection` to load components by name. Parameters must be passed […]
Read more →Top 5 Features of Entity Framework Core 6
EF Core 6 ships with .NET 6 and brings several performance and usability improvements. Here are the highlights. 1. Compiled Models Pre-compile your model to avoid expensive startup reflection. 2. Temporal Tables (SQL Server) 3. Pre-Convention Model Configuration Apply conventions like “all strings max 256” globally. 4. Migration Bundles Package migrations as executables for CI/CD. […]
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