Azure .NET Production Hosting

How do Azure App Service deployment slots make .NET releases safer?

Explains staging slots, validation before swap, warm-up, traffic continuity, and safer production releases for App Service APIs.

How does an App Service plan affect scaling for a .NET API?

Explains how App Service plans provide compute capacity, how scale-out affects app instances, and why APIs need stateless design.

How do feature flags change Azure App Service deployment strategy?

Explains deployment versus release, staged enablement, kill switches, cleanup, and App Service slot interaction.

How do Key Vault references and managed identity work in App Service?

Explains how App Service can resolve Key Vault references through managed identity and what to watch during rotation and environment setup.

How should a .NET API handle Azure SQL transient faults?

Explains transient database errors, retry strategy, EF Core execution strategy, idempotency, timeouts, and avoiding retry storms.

How should configuration work for a .NET API in Azure App Service?

Covers App Service app settings, environment-specific configuration, restarts, slot settings, and avoiding hard-coded production values.

Azure .NET Production Hosting

App Service, identity, secrets, deployments, observability, and background work.

A focused Azure track for .NET backend and full-stack candidates who need to explain production hosting, safe releases, App Service behavior, managed identity, Key Vault, Azure SQL, Application Insights, and queue-based work.