<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Michael Dubose — Writing</title><description>Essays on engineering leadership, re-platforming, and scaling teams.</description><link>https://michaeldubose.dev/</link><item><title>Zero to a production foundation in an afternoon: Aspire, HotChocolate, EF Core &amp; Relay</title><link>https://michaeldubose.dev/blog/production-foundation-in-an-afternoon/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://michaeldubose.dev/blog/production-foundation-in-an-afternoon/</guid><description>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 paginated, filterable Wheel of Time library which is genuinely production-shaped. Then the payoff: an MCP server and REST API you didn&apos;t have to write.</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why I built this site (and what I&apos;ll write here)</title><link>https://michaeldubose.dev/blog/welcome/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://michaeldubose.dev/blog/welcome/</guid><description>A short note on the thinking behind michaeldubose.dev — and the kind of engineering-leadership writing to expect.</description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>