codingsoul

Intuition and discipline, coding for my soul

Can You Defend Your AI’s Decisions?

Why Multi-Agent Systems Must Be Sequential — And How It is Built in Agent Smith Most multi-agent demos look impressive. Five agents discussing a problem, contradicting each other, refining ideas, eventually converging on a solution. It feels like watching a real engineering team at work. But it isn’t. It’s a room where everyone talks at […]

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What Do You Want to Do, Claude?

Part 1 of a series about what happens when you stop giving AI instructions and start listening. I’ve been coding since 1985. Commodore 64, assembler, then decades of .net, cloud, Terraform, Big Data. I run my own consulting business. I’ve been around long enough to not get easily impressed by technology. So let’s try something […]

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build azure devops agents with linux & cloud init for dotnet development

The latest project that I am involved in made me do a lot of azure devops stuff. Beside the architectural and development tasks, building all pipelines including infrastructure provisioning was my part. Great stuff I anyway wanted to dig deeper. Let’s have a look what it means. The expectations The project is a web site […]

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multi-schema with EF Core 6.0 and default interface method stack overflow exception magic

Introduction Since I went to be a freelancer some months before, I am lucky enough to participate in a lot of interesting projects. The most recent one is about creating surveys. What’s the topic? A catalog of questions shall be configured. Questions can be hierarchical, rely on parent. Just one level. Questions are defined with […]

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How to work with Azure Service Bus efficiently, part 1

Introduction This is a small series of articles about how to work with Azure Service Bus. The code is written in .net core and .net standard. No fancy Python in place here! Part 1: (this one) Talk about the basics Part 2: Show the code Part 3: Has everything been recognized? Straighten out requirements I […]

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IoT architectures – automation stunts with .net framework, part 5

Part 5: Final architecture & learnings This is the fourth of at six articles about how an IoT project with certain constraints and prerequisites was implemented. In recent article I described why it was not possible to create the docker container for OSISoft AKSDK lib and that is was not possible to leverage old-school Azure […]

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IoT architectures – automation stunts with .net framework, part 4

Part 4: Going on with alternative deployment options This is the fourth of at six articles about how an IoT project with certain constraints and prerequisites was implemented. In recent article I described why it was not possible to create the docker container for OSISoft AKSDK lib and that is was not possible to leverage […]

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IoT architectures – automation stunts with .net framework, part 3

Part 3: What about alternative deployment options? This is the third of six articles about how an IoT project with certain constraints and prerequisites was implemented. In recent article I described why it was not possible to create the docker container for OSISoft AKSDK lib. This article is about possible options to deploy old-school .net […]

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