Mark Hazleton
Technical Solutions Architect
25+ years designing resilient .NET and Azure systems for healthcare and enterprise. I write about what actually works in cloud architecture, system design, and engineering leadership — connecting strategy, infrastructure, and practical engineering to build systems that stay reliable when the stakes are high.
Latest Architecture & Engineering Posts
Cloud architecture insights, .NET best practices, and system design patterns.
Closing the Loop: Automating Feedback with Suggest-Improvement
Designing the DevSpark CLI UX: Commands vs Prompts
The Alias Layer: Masking Complexity in Agent Invocations
Dave's Top Ten: Git Stats You Should Never Track
Dogfooding DevSpark: Building the Plane While Flying It
Workflows as First-Class Artifacts: Defining Operations for AI
Featured Open Source Packages
NuGet and npm packages I've authored for the developer community.
Git Spark: Advanced Git Repository Analytics Tool
Git Spark is an npm CLI tool and Node.js library that analyzes Git repository commit history to provide insights into contributor activity, code changes, and development patterns. Generates interactive HTML reports with charts, plus JSON, CSV, and Markdown exports.
WebSpark Bootswatch Theme Integration Library
WebSpark.Bootswatch is a .NET Razor Class Library (NuGet package) enabling seamless Bootswatch theme integration into ASP.NET Core applications. Version 2.0+ targets .NET 10 exclusively, featuring dynamic theme switching, light/dark mode with auto-detection, tag helper support, and high-performance StyleCache caching.
WebSpark.HttpClientUtility
WebSpark.HttpClientUtility is a drop-in HttpClient wrapper for .NET 8-10+ with Polly resilience (retries, circuit breakers), response caching, correlation IDs, and OpenTelemetry tracing — configured in one AddHttpClientUtility() call. Includes a separate Crawler package for web scraping. 237+ unit tests across 3 frameworks.
Project Mechanics Framework
A battle-tested project management methodology covering the complete project life cycle, portfolio governance, leadership, and organizational change.
Methodology
The foundational framework defining the Project Life Cycle, portfolio alignment, and the core principle that project management is part art, part science.
Project Management
Master the five project phases from initiation through closure, with proven practices for scope control, risk management, and stakeholder communication.
Portfolio & PMO
Strategic framework for managing multiple projects as a unified portfolio, establishing a PMO, and optimizing resource allocation across your organization.
6 disciplines · Methodology, Leadership, Portfolio Management & more