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Anto Semeraro

@antonellosemeraro

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active: 2026-03-09 → 2026-06-22

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AN Anto Semeraro

Expression Trees in C# — Metaprogramming in Plain Sight

What happens between your LINQ query and the SQL your database actually runs

Mar 09, 2026 · 6 min read · 109 claps paywalled #csharp #dotnet #linq

Expression Trees in C# — Metaprogramming in Plain Sight

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AN Anto Semeraro · Stackademic

Source Generators in C# — Write Code That Writes Code

How Roslyn’s compile-time metaprogramming replaces boilerplate, and what a 1971 paper predicted about programs that write programs.

May 25, 2026 · 7 min read · 51 claps paywalled #csharp #dotnet #metaprogramming

Source Generators in C# — Write Code That Writes Code

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AN Anto Semeraro · .Net Programming

The Retry Policy That Took Down the Entire Cluster

Five retries, exponential backoff, jitter — and a cluster outage in under ninety seconds.

Jun 22, 2026 · 7 min read · 35 claps paywalled #dotnet #software-architecture #distributed-systems

The Retry Policy That Took Down the Entire Cluster

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AN Anto Semeraro

Designing Retry Strategies That Don’t Bring Down Your Own System

Tree rings, retry storms, and what happens when your safety mechanism becomes the outage

May 11, 2026 · 13 min read · 28 claps paywalled #dotnet #distributed-systems #software-architecture

Designing Retry Strategies That Don’t Bring Down Your Own System

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AN Anto Semeraro

The Quiet Death of Runtime Reflection in .NET

For twenty years, reflection powered DI containers, ORMs, and serializers. Source generators and AOT are replacing it — not because…

Mar 28, 2026 · 7 min read · 27 claps paywalled #dotnet #source-generator #software-architecture

The Quiet Death of Runtime Reflection in .NET

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AN Anto Semeraro

How Nokia Lost the Phone — and What the Engineers Saw Coming

A reportage on the slow collapse of a company that knew, told on itself, and jumped anyway — read through the lens of the Swiss watchmakers…

May 25, 2026 · 17 min read · 14 claps paywalled #nokia #business-strategy #tech-history

How Nokia Lost the Phone — and What the Engineers Saw Coming

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AN Anto Semeraro · .Net Programming

CRDTs From Scratch — Building Conflict-Free Data Structures in C#

Two nodes. No coordinator. Same result every time. The math is simpler than you think.

Jun 09, 2026 · 6 min read · 12 claps paywalled #csharp #distributed-systems #dotnet

CRDTs From Scratch — Building Conflict-Free Data Structures in C#

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AN Anto Semeraro

The Anti-Corruption Layer — The Pattern Nobody Implements

Your domain model is slowly becoming someone else’s data model. Here’s the pattern that stops the bleeding — and why most teams skip it…

Mar 23, 2026 · 8 min read · 4 claps paywalled #software-architecture #domain-driven-design #dotnet

The Anti-Corruption Layer — The Pattern Nobody Implements

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AN Anto Semeraro · Data Engineer Things

SQLite — The Quiet Database Inside Everything

A reportage on the small file living in your phone, your car, your plane, and your browser — and on the three-person team in North Carolina…

Jun 15, 2026 · 19 min read · 3 claps paywalled #sqlite #open-source #software-history

SQLite — The Quiet Database Inside Everything

AN Anto Semeraro · Stackademic

What ‘dotnet run’ Actually Does — From MSBuild to Machine Code

You type two words and code executes. Between those two events, your project passes through a pipeline that would make a factory engineer…

May 06, 2026 · 11 min read · 2 claps paywalled #dotnet #csharp #compilers

What ‘dotnet run’ Actually Does — From MSBuild to Machine Code

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AN Anto Semeraro · Bootcamp

Teams That Stopped Deploying on Fridays Started Deploying Less Overall

The fear was never about Friday.

Jun 08, 2026 · 5 min read · 2 claps paywalled #software-engineering #devops #engineering-culture

Teams That Stopped Deploying on Fridays Started Deploying Less Overall

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AN Anto Semeraro · Stackademic

The Fourier Transform of Your Error Logs

Applying signal processing to error time series — decomposing noise into periodic signals and building an anomaly detector that knows…

Jun 18, 2026 · 13 min read · 0 claps paywalled #signal-processing #observability #csharp

The Fourier Transform of Your Error Logs

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AN Anto Semeraro

The Five Minutes After a Successful Deploy When Nobody Talks

Every team does it. Nobody talks about it.

Apr 13, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps paywalled #software-engineering #engineering-culture #software-development