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Pragmatic architecture and modernization
Deciding what to keep, what to replace and how to move without losing the business: .NET and Azure architecture, resilience, data and case studies.
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Building Resilient .NET Applications with Polly
Network communication is inherently unreliable — timeouts, transient faults, downstream services that hiccup at exactly the wrong moment. Polly with HttpClient turns retries, timeouts, and circuit breakers from one-off code into a composable resilience pattern.
UISampleSpark: Seven UI Paradigms, One Backend
Most tutorial projects demonstrate one way to build a web interface. UISampleSpark asks a different question — what if we demonstrated all of them? Seven radically different frontend approaches, the same backend API, the same data model, compared side by side.
UISampleSpark: Constitution-Driven Development
For nearly seven years, UISampleSpark operated on implicit rules. In February 2026, a constitution-driven approach powered by AI agents analyzed the codebase, surfaced unwritten conventions, formalized 11 principles with 30 enforceable requirements, and resolved three critical compliance gaps.
Cloudflare and IIS: Hosting My .NET Sites on One VM
Getting one .NET site online behind Cloudflare is manageable. Hosting several low-traffic demonstration sites on one Windows VM to keep cost and maintenance low forced me to think less about hosting checklists and more about blast radius, boundaries, and what I would do if one of them ever outgrew this setup.
Safely Launching a New MarkHazleton.com
A detailed account of migrating MarkHazleton.com to a modern React-based static site, solving critical SEO crawlability issues, implementing build tracking, and safely switching production domains between Azure Static Web Apps.
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ApiSpark
Modular ASP.NET Core backend platform consolidating multiple low-volume APIs into a single Azure-hosted service, serving as the centralized API layer for the Make Bold Spark portfolio.
Hosts my consolidated APIs and the API Test Spark live demo
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.
Thousands of NuGet downloads