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Introduction Web applications use counter operations to deliver interactive user experiences. Whether tracking social media engagement metrics or managing e-commerce inventory levels, these operations must be both reliable and scalable. This post walks you through two architectural patterns that deliver predictable performance. To illustrate these patterns, let us consider a social media application post-liking feature. […]

Introduction VTEX, a global e-commerce company serving over 3,400 customers across 38 countries, has undergone a transformative journey since its inception in 2000. Evolving from a B2B textile software to a cloud-native, microservices-based e-commerce platform, VTEX has prioritized efficiency, resilience, and innovation. As part of the journey to a modernized SaaS application, VTEX realized it’s […]

Development and testing of AWS integrated applications incur AWS costs and need reliable internet connectivity. LocalStack helps reduce AWS costs by running emulated AWS services locally, while also eliminating connectivity issues. In this blog post, we will demonstrate how to reduce AWS costs for a sample .NET application in Development and Test cycles by setting […]

Among others, the insurance industry is embracing the benefits of cloud-focused serverless computing services to run code without the overhead of provisioning or managing servers. Moving on-premises .NET Web APIs to such destinations come with a broad range of considerations. This blog post provides a return of experience from AXA Belgium’s engineering team and their […]

GraphQL APIs enables clients to request specific data sets, reducing over-fetching compared to traditional REST APIs, which return fixed data structures with unnecessary fields. Unlike REST APIs that require multiple endpoints and round trips to gather related data, GraphQL provides a single endpoint. This enables clients to fetch exactly what they need in one request, improving […]

Introduction This post covers the architecture and components of a modern .NET serverless application, demonstrating implementation patterns for authentication, data storage, image processing, and API management that showcase the optimization benefits of this architecture. AWS serverless architecture provides improved scalability, cost-efficiency, and reduced operational overhead. Part 1 of this series focused on initial setup and […]

In May 2025, we launched AWS Transform for .NET with the capability to connect and download .NET code bases from GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket for transformation (described in the AWS Transform User Guide). AWS Transform now also supports code bases in Azure Repos and Azure Artifacts. With this new capability, you can transform .NET applications […]

This post shows how to create your own Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with C# and .NET. You will use Amazon Q Developer Command-Line Interface (Amazon Q CLI) as an MCP client. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets Artificial Intelligence (AI) models safely interact with external tools and resources. MCP enhances […]

In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, Amazon Bedrock and .NET Aspire help in integrating AI capabilities into your applications. Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service offering access to various Foundation Models (FMs), combined with .NET 9, creates a robust foundation for building such applications. .NET Aspire is an opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building observable, production-ready, […]

AWS recently added AWS Lambda SnapStart support for .NET Lambda functions to deliver faster function startup performance, from several seconds to as low as sub-second, typically with minimal or no code changes. This post explores techniques to maximize the performance gains of SnapStart for several different types of .NET workloads. For a high-level overview and […]