18 article(s)

• Azure for .NET Developers — Part 5: Blob Storage, Queues, and SAS Tokens That Expire Properly

  BlobServiceClient with DefaultAzureCredential, access tiers and lifecycle rules, and user-delegation SAS links that expire in minutes instead of account keys that never do.

  @llaxmikant · Aug 18, 2026
• Azure for .NET Developers — Part 4: Managed Identity — Kill Every Connection String and API Key

  System vs user-assigned identities, RBAC role grants, and the DefaultAzureCredential chain that makes the same C# work on your laptop and in production.

  @llaxmikant · Aug 13, 2026
• Azure for .NET Developers — Part 3: Azure SQL, EF Core, and the Firewall Gotchas

  Provision serverless Azure SQL with auto-pause, wire up EF Core with retry-on-failure, survive the firewall rules, and go password-less with Entra authentication.

  @llaxmikant · Aug 11, 2026
• Azure for .NET Developers — Part 2: Deploy an ASP.NET Core App to App Service the Right Way

  az webapp up, GitHub Actions, Key Vault configuration references, deployment slots for zero-downtime swaps, and the gotchas that break first deployments.

  @llaxmikant · Aug 10, 2026
• Azure for .NET Developers — Part 1: Subscriptions, Tenants, and Entra ID Explained

  The Azure mental model for C# developers: tenant vs subscription vs resource group, what app registrations really are, and how DefaultAzureCredential kills hardcoded secrets.

  @llaxmikant · Aug 7, 2026
• Python for .NET Developers: A Practical First Project

  Coming from C#? Learn Python by building a small REST API with FastAPI — virtual environments demystified, Pydantic as your model binding, and a side-by-side C# to Python cheat sheet.

  @llaxmikant · Aug 1, 2026
• WCF in the AI Era: Testing Legacy Services and Migrating to CoreWCF or gRPC

  A pragmatic WCF migration path: pin behavior with generated-client tests, lift unchanged contracts onto .NET 10 with CoreWCF (verified end to end), then move consumers to gRPC on your schedule.

  @llaxmikant · Jul 26, 2026
• WCF Test Client: How to Test WCF Services with WcfTestClient.exe

  Find, launch, and use WCF Test Client: add a service by WSDL, invoke operations with complex parameters, read the SOAP XML, fix the classic quota errors, and know its limits.

  @llaxmikant · Jul 25, 2026
• 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