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 | Aug 7, 2026 | SharpJournal
TL;DR: Choosing a data analytics platform is a technical architecture decision, not just a feature comparison. Before you commit, you need to evaluate API quality, embedding options, scalability behavior under your actual data profile, AI/ML integration depth, and...
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...
