The AI N+1 Problem in .NET
Most .NET developers recognise an N+1 database query when they see one. AI features can recreate the same failure at a more expensive boundary. An application loads 300 support tickets, documents or p

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Most .NET developers recognise an N+1 database query when they see one. AI features can recreate the same failure at a more expensive boundary. An application loads 300 support tickets, documents or p

Your Vector Index Is a Second Database

There is a piece of EF Core advice that appears in almost every performance discussion: If the query is read-only, use AsNoTracking(). Its usually good advice. Tracking entities requires EF Core to

An authenticated user calls your API with a valid access token. The token contains the right role and the endpoint requires authorisation. Everything appears secure. The user then changes /claims/8d61

Sending text to an AI model as an image sounds like it should cost more. The application has to render the text, encode a PNG and send a much larger payload over the network. Yet for the right kind of

Applications increasingly accept URLs from outside their own code. A webhook tester calls an endpoint supplied by a customer. An image service downloads a remote avatar. A document pipeline retrieves
