Most .NET teams reach for a Python or Node sidecar the moment a device starts speaking MQTT. Here’s how to keep the entire pipeline — broker connection, dedup, thresholds, time-series storage — in .NET 10, and why that stops being optional past 10 million rows a day.
Rate limiting and bulkhead isolation are often mentioned together but solve different problems. This deep-dive explains both patterns, shows where they fail without the other, and walks through Granit’s dual enforcement model — Redis-backed quotas for the time axis, concurrency limiters for the thread axis.
A server restart between your database commit and your HTTP POST drops the event forever. The fix is the transactional outbox pattern — persist the event in the same transaction as your data, relay it asynchronously, retry on failure. Here is how Granit.Webhooks implements it end-to-end.
