Stack Traceshttps://www.georgewanjohi.com/A short description of the blog.Miniblog.Core2024-12-31T09:00:00Zhttps://www.georgewanjohi.com/blog/welcome/Welcome to My Blog 👋2026-09-12T15:27:59Z2024-12-31T09:00:00Ztest@example.comGeorge Wanjohi<p class="isSelectedEnd">This is a place where I’ll share the things I learn, build, break, fix, and occasionally wonder why I ever started working on in the first place.</p>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">I’m a software developer, and most of my day-to-day work revolves around <strong>C#, .NET, APIs, databases, distributed systems, and financial technology</strong>. Over the years, I’ve learned that some of the most useful knowledge comes not from perfectly written tutorials, but from solving real problems — especially the problems that make you stare at an error message for far too long.</p>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">So, that’s what I want this blog to be about.</p>
<h2>What You'll Find Here</h2>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">I’ll be writing about things such as:</p>
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<li><strong>.NET & C#</strong> — architecture, performance, dependency injection, reflection, APIs, and the occasional strange framework behavior.</li>
<li><strong>Backend development</strong> — building services that are reliable, maintainable, and hopefully less complicated than they need to be.</li>
<li><strong>Databases</strong> — SQL Server, Entity Framework Core, performance, queries, and lessons learned from production systems.</li>
<li><strong>FinTech</strong> — software engineering in financial systems, banking integrations, payments, and the challenges that come with moving money through software.</li>
<li><strong>DevOps & infrastructure</strong> — Docker, Linux, CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, and getting applications from “works on my machine” to actually working somewhere else.</li>
<li><strong>Architecture & engineering</strong> — decisions around designing systems, choosing between approaches, and understanding the trade-offs rather than blindly following patterns.</li>
<li><strong>Experiments & side projects</strong> — sometimes the best way to understand something is to build a small project and see what happens.</li>
</ul>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">And probably a few things that don't fit neatly into any of those categories.</p>
<h2>Why Another Tech Blog?</h2>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">Because I keep finding myself searching for answers.</p>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">Sometimes I find exactly what I need. Sometimes I find five Stack Overflow answers written in 2017, three GitHub issues, and a blog post that starts with <em>“It's actually very simple…”</em> before proceeding to make it considerably more complicated.</p>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">I'd like to contribute to the other side of that search.</p>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">When I solve something interesting, I'll try to document it. When I compare two approaches, I'll try to explain <strong>why</strong> one might be better instead of simply declaring a winner. And when I get something wrong, I'll hopefully document that too.</p>
<h2>No Gurus. Just Learning.</h2>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">I'm not here to pretend I know everything.</p>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">Software development changes constantly. Technologies evolve, best practices change, and solutions that made perfect sense a few years ago can become technical debt today.</p>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">This blog is therefore as much a record of my own learning as it is a resource for anyone else who finds something useful here.</p>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">If something I've written helps you solve a problem, understand a concept, or avoid spending three hours debugging the wrong thing, then the post has done its job.</p>
<h2>Let's Build Something</h2>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">Whether you're a fellow .NET developer, a backend engineer, someone working in FinTech, or simply curious about how software systems work, you're welcome here.</p>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">I'll be sharing projects, experiments, lessons, opinions, and the occasional rabbit hole.</p>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">Thanks for stopping by.</p>
<p><strong>Now let's build something.</strong> 🚀</p>