Writing
Notes on building software & teams
Occasional essays on engineering leadership, architecture decisions, and the craft of scaling both systems and the people who run them.
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Zero to a production foundation in an afternoon: Aspire, HotChocolate, EF Core & Relay
A step-by-step bootstrap of a modern .NET + React stack — Aspire orchestration, a layered HotChocolate GraphQL API over EF Core/Postgres with GreenDonut.Data, and a YARP-fronted Vite/Relay frontend — that gets you to a styled Hello, World!! which is genuinely production-shaped. Then the payoff: an MCP server and REST API you didn't have to write.
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Why I built this site (and what I'll write here)
A short note on the thinking behind michaeldubose.dev — and the kind of engineering-leadership writing to expect.