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15 article(s)

• .NET AI Engineer Roadmap 2026–27: From Modern C# to Production AI

  A stage-by-stage path to becoming a .NET AI engineer: modern C#, backend skills, LLMs and RAG, Semantic Kernel and MCP, Azure deployment, production AI and the projects that get you hired.

  ConfidentHire Academy · Oct 22, 2026
• Azure Certifications in 2026: A Complete Roadmap from AZ-900 to Expert

  How Microsoft's Azure certifications are organised, which one suits your role, costs and free renewals, and an 8-week plan to pass AZ-900.

  ConfidentHire Academy · Oct 16, 2026
• Azure for .NET Developers — Part 8: What a Hobby-Scale .NET App Really Costs

  Honest, itemized numbers for a small production ASP.NET Core app on Azure, the cost traps that bite beginners, and when a plain $12 VPS is simply the better call.

  @llaxmikant · Aug 27, 2026
• Azure for .NET Developers — Part 7: Create and Automate VMs with the Azure SDK

  The modern Azure.ResourceManager SDK end to end: resource group, network, and a Linux VM with SSH keys from C#, plus scheduled start/stop to keep the bill sane.

  @llaxmikant · Aug 23, 2026
• Azure for .NET Developers — Part 6: Azure Functions vs Background Services — When Serverless Wins

  The isolated worker model, honest cold-start numbers, and a practical decision table for Functions vs IHostedService vs container jobs.

  @llaxmikant · Aug 20, 2026
• 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
• 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
• Create an Azure VM using C# and Azure.ResourceManager

  Provision a complete Azure Linux VM from C# with the modern Azure.ResourceManager SDK — DefaultAzureCredential auth, VNet, public IP, NIC, SSH-key login, and a migration map from the deprecated Fluent

  @llaxmikant · May 15, 2026
• Azure Resource Manager Templates Overview — with Bicep

  How Azure Resource Manager works and why templates beat scripts — with Bicep as the modern authoring language: parameters, resources, outputs, what-if previews, and deployment commands.

  @llaxmikant · Apr 11, 2026
• Create and Connect an Azure Linux VM with an SSH Key Pair

  Create an SSH key pair with ssh-keygen, provision an Azure Ubuntu VM that accepts only that key using the Azure CLI, connect, and harden access — with cleanup commands.

  @llaxmikant · Mar 27, 2026
• How to Get Azure Tenant ID, Client ID and Client Secret (Portal and CLI)

  Find your Azure tenant ID, subscription ID, client ID and client secret in the portal or with az cli, then use them with DefaultAzureCredential.

  @llaxmikant · Mar 9, 2026