Build software like a bag of marbles, not a castle of LEGO®

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Shows a working modular approach that lets a single ASP.NET Core deployable gain or lose device support by dropping plugin assemblies into a folder, using ApplicationParts.Add to load controllers, a small type-registrar wrapper around IServiceCollection for DI, a System.Text.Json custom converter for safe polymorphic deserialization, EF Core model injections to register plugin types at OnModelCreating, and FluentMigrator to keep migrations per-plugin. It handles the reality that ~25% of integrations go live and ~75% never do, and it proves the pattern works.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:36IoT platform challenges
3. 7:12Refactoring the monolith
4. 13:08Microservices not always answer
5. 18:24Onion architecture
6. 27:36Plugin-based system
7. 32:16Polymorphic deserialization
8. 35:31Plugin extension points
9. 37:58EF Core and plugin data
10. 41:31Database migrations with plugins
11. 47:30Key takeaways

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