pascal-azubike.hashnode.dev.NET MAUI in 2025: The Complete Migration Guide (Should You Leave Xamarin?)Introduction If you're reading this, you probably got the news. Xamarin support officially ended in May 2024. Your apps still work, but you can't update them forever. Google Play will stop accepting updates for Xamarin apps built with Android 13 or e...Dec 28, 2025·16 min read
pascal-azubike.hashnode.dev.NET Aspire: The Complete Guide to Building Cloud-Native Apps Without the HeadachesIntroduction Remember the last time you tried to run a distributed app locally? You probably spent half your day writing docker-compose files, fighting with connection strings, and trying to figure out why service A couldn't talk to service B. Then w...Dec 27, 2025·14 min read
pascal-azubike.hashnode.devC# 13 Features: The Practical Guide Every Developer Should ReadIntroduction C# 13 shipped with .NET 9 in November 2024, and honestly, it's one of those releases that might not blow your mind at first glance. There's no revolutionary syntax like pattern matching was in C# 8, or records in C# 9. But here's the thi...Dec 2, 2025·14 min read
pascal-azubike.hashnode.dev.NET 9 Performance Deep Dive: The Ultimate Guide for High-Performance ApplicationsIntroduction Over 7,500 pull requests got merged into the .NET runtime in the past year. That's a massive number, and it shows just how much work went into making .NET 9 one of the most significant performance releases we've seen. This isn't just a m...Nov 25, 2025·13 min read
pascal-azubike.hashnode.devTraditional Hosting vs Azure App Service. What Engineering Teams Stop ManagingHosting practices have evolved rapidly, especially as .NET 8 applications adopt more cloud native patterns. Teams often ask whether they should continue hosting applications on IIS or Nginx running on virtual machines, or move to a managed platform l...Nov 25, 2025·5 min read