Turning a client IP into a city has two answers in .NET — a local MaxMind database or a remote lookup API — and each hides a trap. Here is the honest trade-off between offline speed and online freshness, the GDPR problem nobody mentions, and how to run both behind one resolver.
Hangfire ships fast. Then production scales out, two nodes fire the same recurring job at the same time, the outbox you bolted on doesn’t include the job table, and the audit log goes sideways. There is a better default in 2026.
LaunchDarkly is great. €0.0050 per MAU is less great when you have 200k tenants and want to gate “VideoConference” behind the Premium plan. Here is how to build LaunchDarkly’s core value in your own .NET codebase — without the bill.
SSE, SignalR, or raw WebSockets? A practical decision framework for .NET real-time applications, with protocol deep-dives, trade-offs, and ready-to-use Granit code samples for each transport.
FullStackHero and Granit both target modular .NET applications, but their architectures, compliance stories, and extension models diverge sharply. Here is a fair, side-by-side comparison for architects choosing their next foundation.
