Modern, cross-platform web development on .NET for engineers who already know another backend — the hosting model and Kestrel, choosing between Minimal APIs, MVC, and Razor Pages, the middleware pipeline, dependency injection as a first-class citizen, configuration and options, Entity Framework Core, authentication, and a look at Blazor — all on .NET 10.
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SQL Server Quick Start and T-SQL Cheat Sheet Getting productive on Microsoft SQL Server fast when you already know PostgreSQL or MySQL — connecting with sqlcmd and the modern clients, running the engine in a container, the T-SQL dialect essentials (TOP, OFFSET/FETCH, MERGE, CTEs, window functions), indexes and execution plans, stored procedures, backup and restore, and the dialect gotchas that trip up newcomers.
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Azure Linux 4.0 and Azure Container Linux GA: Microsoft's Hardened OS for Cloud-Native and AI Workloads Microsoft announced Azure Linux 4.0 preview and Azure Container Linux GA at OSS Summit NA 2026 — a Fedora-based VM OS with atomic updates, AI-workload hardening, and a TCMalloc-Azure performance upgrade, alongside a sub-300MB container-only image purpose-built for AKS.