ASP.NET Core APIs, EF Core, Azure AI

I kept this issue deliberately mixed, which makes the contrast between pieces more useful. The Minimal APIs vs Controllers article is a practical architecture call many teams still wrestle with, and the EF Core plus Dapper tuning story is the kind of concrete performance writeup I always appreciate. There’s also a noticeable AI thread here, from MCP-based coding assistants to Azure agent tooling, without crowding out the bread-and-butter ASP.NET Core and data access material.