mostlylucid.net - Scott Galloway's Developer Blog

Under Pressure: How Queueing Systems Handle Backpressure with Examples in C#

Azure Service Bus C# Distributed Systems Kafka Messaging RabbitMQ

Backpressure is the unsung hero of distributed systems. It's what keeps your queues from bursting at the seams when producers are firing messages faster than consumers can chew through them. Put...

Sunday, 23 November 2025 14:00

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17 minute read

Self-Hosted Vector Databases with Qdrant: A Deep Dive

AI-Article ASP.NET Qdrant RAG Semantic Search Vector Databases

📖 Related to the RAG Series: This article provides a deep dive into Qdrant, the vector database used in: Part 4: ONNX & Qdrant Implementation - Building semantic search Part 5: Hybrid Search &...

Sunday, 23 November 2025 13:00

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9 minute read

The War on 404: Making Old Stuff Work Again

404s ASP.NET C# Middleware

When you've been blogging since 2004 (yes, really), you accumulate a lot of digital detritus. I recently imported my old posts from 2004-2009 ( https://www.mostlylucid.net/blog/category/Imported) and...

Sunday, 23 November 2025 10:35

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19 minute read

Playing with Code: An Efficient Agile Approach

Agile Best Practices Craftsmanship Software Development

Why treating your branch as a sandbox—and play as legitimate work—produces better software with less stress. Hot take: Most developers are trying to be perfect at every stage of development, and it's...

Sunday, 23 November 2025 10:00

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20 minute read

RAG for Implementers: Hybrid Search and Automatic Indexing

AI-Article ASP.NET Machine Learning ONNX Qdrant RAG Semantic Search Vector Search

📖 Part of the RAG Series: This is Part 5 - production integration patterns: Part 1: RAG Origins and Fundamentals - What embeddings are, why they matter Part 2: RAG Architecture and Internals -...

Saturday, 22 November 2025 12:00

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8 minute read

RAG in Practice: Building Real-World Applications

AI AI-Article LLM Machine Learning RAG Semantic Search

In Part 1 of this RAG series, we covered the fundamentals of Retrieval-Augmented Generation—what it is, how it works, and the underlying technology (embeddings, vector databases, LLM internals). Now...

Saturday, 22 November 2025 10:00

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20 minute read

RAG in Practice: Building Real-World Applications

AI AI-Article LLM Machine Learning RAG Semantic Search

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we covered RAG's origins, fundamentals, and technical architecture. You understand what RAG is, why it matters, and how it works under the hood. Now it's time to...

Saturday, 22 November 2025 10:00

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21 minute read

RAG Architecture and Internals: How It Really Works

AI AI-Article LLM Machine Learning RAG Semantic Search

In Part 1, we covered RAG's origins, fundamentals, and why it matters. You understand the high-level concept: retrieve relevant information, then use it to generate responses. Now we dive deep into...

Saturday, 22 November 2025 09:30

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24 minute read

RAG Explained: Origins and Fundamentals

AI AI-Article LLM Machine Learning RAG Semantic Search

Ever searched for "deployment guide" and got nothing, even though there's an article about "publishing to production"? RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) solves this by understanding meaning, not...

Saturday, 22 November 2025 09:00

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16 minute read

Daily Standups Are Bullshit (Unless They Earn Their Pay)

Agile Development Project Management

Daily standups aren’t inherently bad — but when they become ritual instead of alignment, they waste time and damage trust. This article explores why ceremony is tax, how to measure its value, and...

Friday, 21 November 2025 09:30

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29 minute read