Azure Event Grid and Event Hubs in .NET: When to Use Each
Azure Event Grid vs Event Hubs in .NET: learn how each works, how they differ from Azure Service Bus, how to publish and handle events in C#, and exactly when to use each.
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Github Actions for .NET: Build, Test, and Ship With Docker
Build a complete CI/CD pipeline for .NET with GitHub Actions - run unit and integration tests, publish a NuGet package, build a Docker image that runs tests, manage secrets, and push to the container registry.
How to Optimize SQL Queries: 20 Proven Best Practices
Slow queries drag down every app. Learn 20 proven techniques to optimize SQL queries in PostgreSQL - indexes, covering indexes, sargable filters, smarter joins, materialized views, functions in where, pagination techniques, improve joins, choose correct join type, improve subqueries, improve transactions. And when to trust the query planner.
EF Core and Azure SQL Database: A Step-by-Step Guide
A step-by-step guide to using EF Core with Azure SQL Database - create the database in Azure Portal, connect and run migrations, add transient-fault resilience, and switch to passwordless Microsoft Entra authentication.
How to Pass Any .NET Interview in 2026: A Complete Roadmap
Pass any .NET interview in 2026 with this complete step-by-step roadmap. Learn how to define your target level and find your gaps, master the full technical map (C#, async and memory, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, security, architecture, and reliability), build a portfolio that proves senior thinking, turn your GitHub into a real portfolio, make LinkedIn bring interviews to you, and win the interview itself - everything you need to land a senior .NET role.
Claude Skills for .NET: Teach AI to Build Features Your Way
Stop pasting the same instructions into every AI session. Learn how to create Claude skills for .NET (also works for Codex, Copilot and Cursor) - reusable, on-demand instruction packs that teach AI your project's conventions. Create modules, services, features in Verticali Slices, Clean Architecture and N-Layered Architecture. How to crete endpoints, where to put application code, repositories, entitites, event consumers and publishers, gRPC, GraphQL. Plus the official .NET skills published by Microsoft.
10 Tools That Will Make Developers More Productive in 2026
Discover the 10 tools .NET developers, architects, and tech leads actually use in 2026 to ship faster, write better code, and cut hours of manual work. AI coding agents, IDE, documentation, diagrams, meeting notes, slide generation, fast typing with voice and check English grammar. With pricing breakdowns for every budget.
EF Core in Clean Architecture the Pragmatic Way
A focused guide to using EF Core in Clean Architecture without repositories. Learn why the Dependency Rule still holds when your Application layer uses DbContext directly, how to keep your handlers small, how to reuse queries, and how to test without mocking. And when a Repository actually makes sense.
How to Structure Production Apps with Vertical Slice Architecture in .NET in 2026
A practical guide to structuring vertical slices in .NET projects. Learn the file-per-concern slice layout, manual handlers without MediatR, Minimal APIs via IApiEndpoint, Result<T>, FluentValidation, inter-module events, and PublicApi boundaries used in a production Modular Monolith template.
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