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🚀 Welcome to F2BStack
Your Ultimate Destination for Coding Tutorials & Tech Blogs
We publish deep, implementation-first guides that help .NET and cloud engineers move from whiteboard concepts to dashboards in production. Every series blends architecture context, verified snippets, deployment blueprints, and checklists so you can move faster without breaking reliability or compliance promises.
- Shipping-focused tutorialsBattle-tested steps for APIs, AI copilots, and data pipelines.
- Research-backed insightsWe connect product strategy with code so your roadmap stays aligned.
- Community office hoursWeekly live reviews covering your blockers, PRs, and observability gaps.
Built for Builders Who Ship
F2BStack started as a set of internal runbooks. It has grown into a publication for engineers, tech leads, and indie builders who want to combine clean architecture with pragmatic delivery. We translate emerging announcements from Microsoft, AWS, and the open-source ecosystem into actionable steps that can be applied the same week.
Whether you manage legacy MVC apps, greenfield microservices, or real-time analytics workloads, you will find guidance that prioritizes traceability, cost awareness, and developer happiness.
What you'll gain
- End-to-end checklists covering design, code, observability, and operations.
- Architecture diagrams and IaC snippets you can adapt in minutes.
- Playbooks for introducing AI safely into existing .NET estates.
- Opinionated templates for PR hygiene, API versioning, and incident response.
Why Teams Trust F2BStack
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Hands-on labs spanning APIs, infra-as-code, and AI copilots.
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Industry playbooks for finance, retail, health, media, and SaaS.
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Average time saved per sprint by using our ready-to-run assets.
.NET Problems We Solve Every Week
Lift-and-Evolve Playbooks
Practical guides for migrating Web Forms, WCF, and on-prem SQL workloads into Azure Container Apps or AWS ECS without breaking compliance.
- Modernization scorecards to rank technical debt
- Side-by-side code comparisons for EF6 → EF Core
- Automation scripts for blue/green deployments
FinOps for APIs
Benchmarks and calculators that show how caching, queuing, and autoscaling settings in .NET 8/10 reduce cloud spend while improving SLAs.
- Ready-to-use Azure Monitor workbooks
- Chaos experiments to validate retry policies
- Checklists for right-sizing containers & SQL tiers
Responsible Copilot Recipes
Reference implementations that blend Semantic Kernel, Azure OpenAI, and ASP.NET minimal APIs with governance, telemetry, and prompt safety tests.
- Evaluation harness with unit + synthetic datasets
- Playbooks for grounding models with Azure AI Search
- Data retention guidance for regulated industries
Curated Learning Paths
Cloud Native
API Reliability Track
Six-part series covering DDD-aligned endpoints, background message pumps, chaos testing, and dashboards that alert on SLIs your exec team actually cares about.
- Terraform & Bicep deployment bundles
- Grafana + Azure Monitor dashboards
- Incident drills with runbooks
Data & AI
Intelligent Apps Blueprint
Blend OpenAI, Azure AI Search, and ML.NET with guardrails, prompt testing, and vector DB hygiene so your copilots stay secure and explainable.
- Prompt evaluation harness templates
- Semantic caching strategies
- Responsible AI scorecard checklist
Platform
Developer Experience Accelerator
Stand up golden paths for repos, monorepo automation, container builds, and progressive delivery so every merge is observable, signed, and auditable.
- Re-usable GitHub Actions pipelines
- Supply chain scanning integrations
- Launch checklist with comms templates
Trending Topic
Popular Tech Blogs
.NET Core
Production-Ready .NET Core
Architect resilient web APIs with dependency injection, background services, health checks, and deployment tips tailored for enterprise workloads.
Microservices
.NET Microservices Blueprint
Break down monoliths into independently deployable services using Dapr, MassTransit, API gateways, and distributed tracing.
AI + .NET
AI with .NET & Azure OpenAI
Build intelligent apps using ML.NET, Semantic Kernel, vector search, and Azure OpenAI integrations for copilots and automation.
.NET 10
What's New in .NET 10
Unpack AOT boosts, minimal API filters, native container images, and SDK improvements that streamline cloud-native development.
SQL Server
SQL Server Performance Lab
Deep dive into columnstore indexes, temporal tables, Query Store, Extended Events, and automation for mission-critical databases.
APIs
REST & GraphQL Done Right
Design RESTful endpoints, federation-ready GraphQL schemas, API versioning, throttling, and zero-trust security patterns.
Azure
Azure for .NET Engineers
Leverage App Service, Container Apps, API Management, and Azure SQL to run .NET workloads with observability and cost controls.
AWS
AWS Cloud for .NET Teams
Run .NET services on ECS, Lambda, and Elastic Beanstalk, integrate with RDS SQL Server, and automate deployments with CDK.
Docker
Dockerizing .NET Solutions
Create multi-stage Dockerfiles, optimize image sizes, use Docker Compose for local microservices, and prepare for Kubernetes.
Field-Tested Resources & Toolkits
Audit-Ready Templates
Security review questionnaires, DPIA drafts, and vendor assessment summaries adapted for .NET SaaS teams selling into regulated regions.
Incident Postmortems
Blameless retro templates plus sample KQL/Grafana queries that show how we traced deadlocks, GC pressure, and cost spikes in production.
Product Briefs
Executive-friendly summaries explaining why specific .NET design decisions improve adoption, security posture, or customer retention.
Popular Coding Tutorials
🟦 .NET Core from Scratch
Build clean-architecture APIs, integrate EF Core, authentication, caching, and publish to cloud containers.
🧩 .NET Microservices Masterclass
Design bounded contexts, event-driven communication, resiliency, and automated CI/CD with containers.
🤖 AI & ML with .NET
Create AI copilots using ML.NET, OpenAI connectors, and Azure Cognitive Search with production-ready patterns.
⚡ .NET 10 Deep Dive
Explore native AOT, improved minimal APIs, new analyzers, and performance tricks through real-world demos.
🗄️ SQL Server Pro Techniques
Hands-on labs for indexing, partitioning, in-memory OLTP, backup automation, and monitoring pipelines.
🔗 REST & GraphQL API Lab
Implement secure REST endpoints and GraphQL schemas using .NET, HotChocolate, and best practices for docs.
☁️ Azure & AWS for .NET
Deploy APIs to Azure App Service and AWS ECS, add managed SQL, observability, and zero-downtime releases.
🐳 Dockerizing .NET Apps
Containerize MVC and API projects, optimize multi-stage builds, and orchestrate services locally with Compose.