10 article(s)

• Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 10: Observability with OpenTelemetry

  Close the roadmap with OpenTelemetry: traces, metrics, and logs from a running API, custom spans and counters for business operations, cardinality rules, and sampling strategy.

  @llaxmikant · Jul 24, 2026
• Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 9: Microservices, Honestly

  What microservices buy, what they cost, how to find real boundaries — and why a modular monolith with schema-per-module ownership is the strongest launchpad either way.

  @llaxmikant · Jul 17, 2026
• Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 8: CI/CD with GitHub Actions

  Automate build, smoke test, image, and deployment with GitHub Actions: SHA-tagged images, OIDC federation to Azure, environments with approvals, and pipeline hygiene.

  @llaxmikant · Jul 10, 2026
• Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 7: Azure Deployment

  Ship the container to Azure: choosing between App Service, Container Apps and AKS, pushing to a registry, secrets and managed identity, and capturing it all as Bicep.

  @llaxmikant · Jul 3, 2026
• Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 6: Docker

  Package the API as a container: multi-stage Dockerfile, layer-cache-friendly restore, non-root user, and the two real build failures you will hit — verified with a running container.

  @llaxmikant · Jun 26, 2026
• Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 5: Caching

  Cache the hot read path with IMemoryCache and GetOrCreateAsync, choose expirations, survive stampedes and invalidation, and know when Redis and HybridCache enter.

  @llaxmikant · Jun 19, 2026
• Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 4: JWT Authentication

  Issue and validate JSON Web Tokens in ASP.NET Core: token endpoint, bearer validation, role-based authorization, and the mistakes that turn tokens into breaches — with verified 401/403/200 flows.

  @llaxmikant · Jun 13, 2026
• Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 3: Dapper for Fast Reads

  Add a Dapper read path beside EF Core: read models behind a port, parameterized SQL, mapping gotchas we actually hit, and when each tool wins.

  @llaxmikant · Jun 5, 2026
• Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 2: Repository Pattern

  Implement the repository pattern over EF Core the useful way: use-case-shaped interfaces, AsNoTracking reads, unit-of-work saves, correct lifetimes, and the anti-patterns to dodge.

  @llaxmikant · May 29, 2026
• Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 1: Clean Architecture

  Start the roadmap with a clean-architecture solution on .NET 10: domain entities with behavior, application-layer ports, infrastructure adapters, and a thin API — dependencies enforced by the compiler

  @llaxmikant · May 22, 2026