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In-depth technical reviews of open-source educational projects. Each review covers architecture, trade-offs, and what the code teaches — good and bad.

distributed-systemsDec 29, 2025

PipelineOrchestratorEdu: Watch Backpressure Happen in Real-Time

A technical review of an educational multi-stage pipeline built with .NET 9, Blazor Server, and SignalR. Demonstrates backpressure mechanics, circuit breakers, and real-time queue visualization—letting developers watch queue depths fluctuate, backpressure activate, and workers fail and recover, all on their local machine.

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rag

RetrievalAugmentedGenerationEdu: Multi-Model RAG with Enterprise Resilience Monitoring

A technical review of an educational RAG system built with .NET 9 and Semantic Kernel. Demonstrates Clean Architecture applied to AI/ML, multi-model language support (Phi-4, Llama, Mistral, GPT), 5 embedding strategies, and production-grade resilience patterns including circuit breakers, retry with backoff, and timeout protection—all processing real PDF manuals locally.

Nov 24, 2025
service-discovery

ServiceRegistrationEdu: Production-Grade Service Discovery with Real-Time Monitoring

A technical review of a distributed service registry built with .NET 9, Blazor Server, and SignalR. Features intelligent health tracking with state machine transitions, pluggable storage backends (PostgreSQL, Redis, In-Memory), administrator approval workflows, and real-time operational dashboards for monitoring service health across distributed systems.

Jan 2, 2025
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