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The architecture I reach for in every .NET project now
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Hey friend, For almost every .NET project I start now, I reach for the same architecture. Not clean architecture. Not the classic controller, service, repository stack that pretty much every tutorial taught us a decade ago, me included... I reach for vertical slice architecture. In my latest video, I break down exactly what it is, why it became my default, and the part almost nobody is talking about. Now that we are all building alongside AI, the rules for choosing an architecture have quietly changed, and most developers are still picking the way they did in 2018. In the video, I get into the locality of behavior, why it matters so much more with agents in the loop, and where vertical slices are not the right call, so you do not think I am selling a silver bullet. Take care, Patrick P.S. This is the exact architecture we used in the Blazor AI Workshop, where we built a real app with AI and shipped it to Azure live. The full three-hour recording is here if you want to see it built end-to-end. Grab it here with the code NEWSLETTER for a sweet discount. |
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