AI & MLAdvanced
Evaluating AI Applications in .NET: Quality, Safety and CI
Evaluate LLM apps in .NET with Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation: quality and safety evaluators, golden datasets, LLM-as-judge, caching, reports and CI gates.
DevOps & CI/CD
21 articles about DevOps & CI/CD: in-depth .NET and AI guides, senior interview questions and AI news on DotNet AI Hub.
Technologies 11
Cloud-NativeIntermediate
Containerizing .NET Applications: Docker Best Practices
Build small, secure .NET 10 container images with multi-stage Dockerfiles, SDK container publishing, chiseled base images, non-root users and scanning.
Data & EF CoreAdvanced
Database Migrations and Zero-Downtime Schema Changes in .NET
Ship schema changes safely in .NET: EF Core migrations, bundles, idempotent scripts, CI/CD rollout, expand-contract, backfills, DbUp and FluentMigrator.
Platform & RuntimeBeginner
.NET Release Cadence, LTS vs STS and Upgrade Strategy
How the .NET release cadence works: LTS vs STS support (STS is now 24 months), end-of-support dates for .NET 8 to 11 and a practical upgrade strategy.
SecurityBeginner
Secrets Management in .NET: User Secrets, Key Vault and Managed Identity
How to keep credentials out of .NET source control using user secrets, Azure Key Vault, managed identity, workload identity and rotation.
Testing & DevOpsIntermediate
CI/CD for .NET with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps
Build production-ready .NET CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines: caching, matrix builds, containers, OIDC and approvals.
Testing & DevOpsIntermediate
Code Quality in .NET: Analyzers, EditorConfig and Static Analysis
Enforce .NET code quality with built-in analyzers, EditorConfig, TreatWarningsAsErrors, dotnet format and third-party static analysis tools.
Testing & DevOpsIntermediate
Integration Testing ASP.NET Core with WebApplicationFactory and Testcontainers
Integration test ASP.NET Core with WebApplicationFactory, real databases via Testcontainers, Respawn resets, auth mocking and Aspire's testing builder.
Testing & DevOpsAdvanced
MSBuild and the .NET Project System: Directory.Build.props and CPM
Master MSBuild, SDK-style projects, Directory.Build.props, Central Package Management, multi-targeting, the .slnx format and binary logs.
Testing & DevOpsIntermediate
Creating and Publishing NuGet Packages the Right Way
Publish high-quality NuGet packages: metadata, SemVer, SourceLink, deterministic builds, trusted publishing, NuGet Audit and package signing.
Testing & DevOpsBeginner
Unit Testing in .NET: xUnit, NUnit, MSTest and Mocking
A practical guide to unit testing in .NET with xUnit v3, NUnit, MSTest, Microsoft.Testing.Platform, mocking with NSubstitute and Moq, and assertions.
Interview Questions 10
Cloud & DevOpsLead
CI/CD and Deployment Strategy Interview Questions for .NET Teams
CI/CD and deployment strategy interview questions for senior .NET engineers: pipeline design, trunk-based dev, blue-green, canary, flags and DORA metrics.
Cloud & DevOpsSenior
Docker and Kubernetes Interview Questions for .NET Developers
Senior Docker and Kubernetes interview questions for .NET developers: image size, container-aware GC, probes, graceful shutdown, config and autoscaling.
Cloud & DevOpsSenior
Infrastructure as Code Interview Questions for Senior .NET Engineers
Ten senior-level interview questions on Bicep, Terraform and Pulumi covering state, modules, drift detection, policy as code and testing IaC.
Cloud & DevOpsArchitect
Scalability and Cloud Cost Optimization Interview Questions for .NET Architects
Ten architect-level interview questions on autoscaling signals, capacity planning, caching, FinOps, reservations and right-sizing .NET workloads.
Cloud & DevOpsLead
Testing Strategy Interview Questions for Senior .NET Engineers
Ten lead-level interview questions on test pyramids, contract testing, Testcontainers, flaky tests, load testing and mutation testing in .NET.
Data & EF CoreLead
Zero-Downtime Database Migration Interview Questions
Lead-level interview questions on zero-downtime database migrations, expand-contract, online indexes, safe backfills and running EF Core in pipelines.
LeadershipLead
Code Review, Mentoring and Engineering Culture Interview Questions
Interview questions on code review standards, knowledge sharing, onboarding, psychological safety and measuring productivity with DORA and SPACE.
LeadershipLead
Tech Lead Interview Questions for Senior .NET Engineers
Senior .NET tech lead interview questions on leading teams, technical direction, delegation, underperformance, coding balance and incident postmortems.
PerformanceSenior
Benchmarking and BenchmarkDotNet Interview Questions
Senior .NET interview questions on BenchmarkDotNet and load testing: microbenchmark design, statistics, CI benchmarks, k6, NBomber and p50/p95/p99 latency.
SecurityLead
Software Supply Chain Security Interview Questions
Lead-level .NET interview questions on NuGet Audit, lock files, source mapping, SBOMs, package signing, SLSA, repo secrets and hardening CI/CD pipelines.