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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
After 12 years of building .NET applications, I have learned 40 hard-earned lessons about writing code, designing systems, and shipping software. From clean code and architecture trade-offs to code reviews, technical debt, CI/CD, and team practices, this post shares the most important takeaways every .NET developer, technical lead, and software architect should know.
Learn how to build file-based apps in .NET 10 and .NET 11 Preview 3. This guide covers single-file C# scripts, multi-file apps with the #:include directive, including SDK, including project files and building a CLI health-check tool, creating Minimal APIs with EF Core and SQLite, and converting scripts to full projects.
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