Katabench
katabench.com
C# coding challenges and .NET labs graded on performance and code quality in sandboxes.
Milan Jovanović
.NET educator with The .NET Weekly, architecture courses and Katabench
About Milan Jovanović
Milan Jovanović is a software engineer and educator who creates content for .NET developers. He runs The .NET Weekly newsletter, which his site says reaches more than 66,000 engineers, and sells premium courses including Pragmatic Clean Architecture, Modular Monolith Architecture and Pragmatic REST APIs, with a Domain-Driven Design course in development.
He also runs Katabench, a practice platform for C# and .NET that grades solutions like production code, measuring run time, memory allocations, query plans and structure in isolated sandboxes rather than just checking for correct output. His free resources include Clean Architecture and Vertical Slice solution templates and Claude Code skills for .NET conventions.
Products by Milan Jovanović
Pragmatic Clean Architecture
milanjovanovic.tech
Course on production-ready .NET with Clean Architecture, CQRS and DDD.
Videos with Milan Jovanović
Milan Jovanović: Why developers should SHARE their knowledge?
PodcastThe Busy Programmer· 2025
Interviews & press
- Milan Jovanović: Why developers should SHARE their knowledge?
The Busy Programmer · Podcast
How Milan builds
- Practice should be graded like production code.
- Pragmatic architecture over dogma.
Learn from Milan Jovanović
[newsletter]
The .NET Weekly
Weekly newsletter on .NET and software architecture.
[course]
Pragmatic Clean Architecture
Production-ready .NET with Clean Architecture, CQRS and DDD.
[course]
Modular Monolith Architecture
Designing modular monoliths with a path to microservices.
Milan Jovanović FAQ
What is Milan Jovanović known for?
He is known for .NET and software architecture content, The .NET Weekly newsletter and courses like Pragmatic Clean Architecture.
What is Katabench?
Katabench is his C# and .NET practice platform that measures time, memory and code structure instead of only correctness.
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