Skill area
Logging, metrics, tracing, correlation IDs, and operational visibility for APIs.
Practice items tagged with Observability.
Turns a production-only role and payload failure into the smallest durable API regression test.
Separates application composition in AppHost from reusable in-process defaults for telemetry, health, resilience, and service discovery.
Explains rate-limit identity, endpoint cost, login and suggestion throttles, Redis counters, user experience, and observability.
Explains why sensitive admin actions need authorization, reason capture, before/after context, and tamper-resistant audit records.
Explains API keys, client credentials, managed identity, mTLS, scopes, rotation, and per-client observability.
Explains trusted tenant context, membership checks, tenant-scoped queries, cache keys, and background job propagation.
Preparation paths where this taxonomy appears in the track scope.
Backend-focused .NET interview preparation.
A backend-focused .NET preparation path covering C#, ASP.NET Core APIs, data access, reliability, testing, and practical coding.
Implement, inspect, and debug the data-access code behind real .NET APIs.
A hands-on EF Core interview track covering DTO projections, N plus one fixes, optional filters, keyset pagination, split queries, set-based updates, concurrency conflicts, outbox transactions, retry strategies, cancellation, bounded imports, query diagnostics, and pooled tenant state.
Prove API behavior, reproduce failures, and leave durable regression evidence.
A practical ASP.NET Core track covering authenticated integration tests, capability and ownership boundaries, ProblemDetails, idempotent retries, stable pagination, cancellation, concurrency, database command guards, correlated failures, distributed tracing, connection-pool pressure, health checks, incident regressions, and post-deploy smoke checks.
Backend reliability, APIs, data boundaries, and operational design.
A backend system design track covering architecture framing, service boundaries, data and API design, distributed systems, reliability, operations, and production trade-offs.