Tired of wrestling with AWS or Azure just to deploy a side project? 😅
I found my sweet spot — Render.
I've been using it to deploy all my portfolio projects and honestly, it's been a game changer. No complex IAM roles, no billing surprises, no 47-step setup guides.
When modernizing legacy .NET apps, I often see this pattern:
“Let’s wrap the sync code in Task.Run () and await it.”
-> It looks async.
-> It compiles async.
-> But it’s fake async.
What really happens:
-> Blocking I/O is moved to the ThreadPool
-> Threads are still consumed
->...
Ever had a bug that only showed up in production and refused to reproduce locally?
I just wrote about a real EF Core footgun where a “harmless getter” silently corrupted lookup tables and left developers scratching their heads.
I try to explain how tracking, SaveChanges(), and...