Last year, I inherited a .NET AI application that was struggling. Response times averaged 2.3 seconds, costs were spiraling, and users were complaining. After three months of optimization, we cut latency by 87% and reduced costs by 72%. Here’s what I learned about optimizing .NET AI applications for production. Figure 1: .NET AI Performance Optimization […]
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Hybrid Search Implementation: Combining Vector and Keyword Retrieval
Introduction: Hybrid search combines the best of both worlds: the semantic understanding of vector search with the precision of keyword matching. Pure vector search excels at finding conceptually similar content but can miss exact matches; pure keyword search finds exact terms but misses semantic relationships. Hybrid search fuses these approaches, using vector similarity for semantic […]
Read more →GitHub Copilot Chat Transforms Developer Productivity: AI-Assisted Development Patterns for Enterprise Teams
Introduction: GitHub Copilot Chat, released in late 2023, represents a paradigm shift in AI-assisted development by bringing conversational AI directly into the IDE. Unlike the original Copilot’s inline suggestions, Copilot Chat enables developers to ask questions, request explanations, generate tests, and refactor code through natural language dialogue. After integrating Copilot Chat into my daily workflow […]
Read more →Tips and Tricks – Freeze Collections for Thread-Safe Read Access
Use FrozenDictionary and FrozenSet for immutable, highly-optimized read-only collections.
Read more →LLM Fallback Strategies: Multi-Provider Failover Architecture (Part 1 of 2)
Introduction: Production LLM applications must handle failures gracefully—API outages, rate limits, timeouts, and degraded responses are inevitable. Fallback strategies ensure your application continues serving users when the primary model fails. This guide covers practical fallback patterns: multi-provider failover, graceful degradation, circuit breakers, retry policies, and health monitoring. The goal is building resilient systems that maintain […]
Read more →Tips and Tricks – Leverage ArrayPool for Temporary Buffer Reuse
Rent and return arrays from a shared pool to avoid repeated allocations in buffer-heavy code.
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