by Owen Briggs | Aug 14, 2026 | SharpJournal
The right managed RabbitMQ hosting solutions keep you off the 3 AM on-call rotation, not the ones with the longest feature list. ScaleGrid, CloudAMQP, Amazon MQ, Heroku add-ons, and self-managed EC2 all run RabbitMQ, but they differ sharply on observability depth,...
by Owen Briggs | Jul 10, 2026 | SharpJournal
If you’re connecting managed cloud content management solutions like Contentful, Contentstack, or Sanity to a .NET backend, you’re making integration decisions that will shape your system’s reliability and maintainability for a long time. This guide...
by Owen Briggs | May 24, 2026 | SharpJournal
The best way for a .NET developer to integrate AI into a product is to treat it as a set of concrete engineering decisions, not a research project. This guide covers the specific choices you face when building AI-powered features: where AI actually fits in your...
by Owen Briggs | May 6, 2026 | SharpJournal
Cloud native application development keeps showing up in job postings, architecture meetings, and team conversations, often without a clear explanation of what it actually changes about how you write and ship code. This post cuts through the vendor-speak and explains...
by Owen Briggs | Apr 1, 2026 | SharpJournal
Request for Payment (RfP) is one of the most consequential capabilities available on TCH’s RTP network and the FedNow Service today, and it remains one of the most misunderstood. This guide compares the payment platforms that genuinely support RfP on both rails,...
