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Production-Ready .NET Services Need Versioned Domain Packages and CI Gates
A developer argues that production readiness for .NET Core services hinges on packaging shared domain logic as versioned NuGet packages in a private Artifactory feed. They built a bot to automate dependency bumps across microservices, but found that auto-merging without full integration tests caused silent breakage. Adding a CI gate that runs the complete integration suite before merge shifted failures from production to a visible red check.
Meridian48 take
The piece correctly identifies that internal dependency automation requires the same discipline as external package updates, but the real insight is that 'production-ready' is a fleet-wide property, not a per-service checklist item.
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