WebSpark.HttpClientUtility

The story

The HTTP plumbing my own projects run on, with thousands of NuGet downloads.

Problem

Every .NET app reinvents the same HttpClient code for retries, caching and telemetry, and the reasons behind those choices tend to live only in someone's head.

Decision

Package it once, hold it to a published quality bar, and write the decisions down. Four consecutive DevSpark specs turned undocumented habits into recorded standards.

Implementation

A documentation site; a zero-warning build with full XML docs and hundreds of passing tests; a split into a base package and a crawler extension with lockstep versioning and atomic publishing; and batch execution with P50/P95/P99 statistics.

Outcome

The base package dropped from 13 to 9 dependencies and shrank by more than 40%, with zero unexpected breaking changes for existing users.