The demo always works. Production is where it gets interesting.

One piece a week on .NET, Azure, and AI — a production problem, what actually fixed it, and what I'd do differently. Plus whatever I was thinking about while writing it.

Who it’s for

Developers and architects building things that have to keep running after the applause. If you’ve shipped something that worked perfectly in a demo and then fell over under real load, real data, or a real customer’s network, you’re who I have in mind.

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One email a week. A short take on what ties that week’s writing together, then the pieces themselves. Not a link roundup, and not tutorials you could get from the docs.

Who’s writing it

Tony Champion — 8x Microsoft MVP, .NET architect, VS Live speaker. Twenty-five years of enterprise systems: high traffic, hyper scaling, Azure China deployments, IoT, and more production incidents than I care to count. I still write the code.

Where the writing lives

Every issue points back to tonychampion.net, where the notes and articles live in full. The newsletter is how it reaches you; the site is where it stays.

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