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A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. This course empowers developers to build high-performance, scalable, and maintainable ASP.NET Core Web APIs. You’ll gain practical skills in implementing search, filtering, paging, caching, rate limiting, and structured logging, enabling you to optimize API performance while following industry best practices. The journey begins with mastering search, filter, and paging operations to handle large datasets efficiently. You will then explore implementing PATCH endpoints, tweaking EF Core performance, and leveraging caching strategies. Each module includes hands-on exercises and testing to ensure your API is both robust and responsive. Next, the course guides you through advanced practices like rate limiting, structured logging with Serilog, global exception handling, and health checks to monitor API stability. Finally, you’ll learn versioning, documentation using Swagger, and deploying your API to Microsoft Azure, providing full-stack deployment experience from code to cloud. Ideal for backend developers, software engineers, and IT professionals, this course requires basic familiarity with C# and ASP.NET Core. Difficulty is intermediate, with practical exercises designed to enhance performance, security, and maintainability of APIs in real-world scenarios. By the end of the course, you will be able to implement efficient search, filtering, and paging in your APIs, optimize EF Core queries, leverage caching and rate limiting, set up structured logging and health monitoring, manage API versioning and documentation, and successfully deploy APIs to Microsoft Azure.
