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• The Email That Built AWS: How Bezos's API Mandate Created Amazon Web Services

  How Jeff Bezos's 2002 API mandate forced Amazon into service interfaces, led to SQS, S3 and EC2, and what architects can learn from it today.

  @llaxmikant · Nov 11, 2026
• Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 10: Observability with OpenTelemetry

  Close the roadmap with OpenTelemetry: traces, metrics, and logs from a running API, custom spans and counters for business operations, cardinality rules, and sampling strategy.

  @llaxmikant · Jul 24, 2026
• Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 9: Microservices, Honestly

  What microservices buy, what they cost, how to find real boundaries — and why a modular monolith with schema-per-module ownership is the strongest launchpad either way.

  @llaxmikant · Jul 17, 2026
• Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 2: Repository Pattern

  Implement the repository pattern over EF Core the useful way: use-case-shaped interfaces, AsNoTracking reads, unit-of-work saves, correct lifetimes, and the anti-patterns to dodge.

  @llaxmikant · May 29, 2026
• Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 1: Clean Architecture

  Start the roadmap with a clean-architecture solution on .NET 10: domain entities with behavior, application-layer ports, infrastructure adapters, and a thin API — dependencies enforced by the compiler

  @llaxmikant · May 22, 2026