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High-Performance ASP.NET Core 10 for Beginners: Build Fast Web APIs Step by Step with Caching, Redis, Response Compression, Async Code, Background Job
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 26 2026
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.45 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Struggling to understand web APIs, backend development, or ASP.NET Core without feeling lost?
High-Performance ASP.NET Core 10 for Beginners is written for learners who want a clear, friendly, step-by-step path into modern Web API development. You do not need to be an expert. You do not need to understand advanced technology before you begin. This book starts gently, explains each idea in plain language, and helps you build confidence one small win at a time.
Instead of overwhelming you with theory, this practical guide walks you through building and improving a real beginner-friendly Web API project using ASP.NET Core 10, C#, Minimal APIs, Entity Framework Core, async code, caching, Redis, response compression, background jobs, logging, health checks, and monitoring.
Mistakes are treated as part of learning, not failure. Each chapter helps you understand what the code does, why it matters, and how it connects to real-world backend development.
Key Features
- A warm, beginner-friendly approach to ASP.NET Core 10 and Web API development
- Step-by-step guidance for building a practical FastShop API project
- Clear explanations of HTTP, JSON, endpoints, routing, middleware, and dependency injection
- Practical performance lessons using async/await, caching, Redis, response compression, and efficient queries
- Real-world backend habits, including validation, error responses, background jobs, logging, health checks, and monitoring
- Supportive teaching style that normalizes mistakes and celebrates small progress
- Helpful appendices with setup guidance, useful .NET CLI commands, common errors, performance checklist, and glossary
Description
This book is your supportive companion for learning how modern backend APIs are built and improved. You will begin with the basics of ASP.NET Core 10, then gradually move into cleaner project structure, database access, async programming, caching, Redis distributed caching, response compression, background processing, and beginner-friendly monitoring.
The goal is not only to help you write code that works. The goal is to help you understand how to build APIs that are faster, cleaner, easier to maintain, and more ready for real-world use.
What You Will Learn
- How ASP.NET Core 10 Web APIs work
- How HTTP requests, JSON responses, and API endpoints connect
- How to organize a clean backend project with middleware, services, DTOs, and configuration
- How to connect an API to a database using Entity Framework Core
- How to write efficient queries with filtering, sorting, and pagination
- How async and await improve non-blocking request handling
- How caching and Redis reduce repeated work
- How response compression reduces payload size
- How background jobs move long-running work out of the request path
- How logging, health checks, metrics, and monitoring help you understand your API
Who This Book Is For
This book is for complete beginners, self-learners, students, junior developers, and early intermediate C# developers who want to learn ASP.NET Core Web API development in a calm, practical, and confidence-building way. If performance topics like caching, Redis, async code, or monitoring feel intimidating, this book explains them step by step.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Understanding ASP.NET Core 10 and Web API Performance
Chapter 2: Building a Clean Foundation for Fast Web APIs
Chapter 3: Creating the FastShop API Project Step by Step
Chapter 4: Working with Data and Async Code
Chapter 5: Improving Speed with Caching
Chapter 6: Using Redis for Distributed Caching
Chapter 7: Reducing Payload Size with Response Compression
Chapter 8: Moving Long-Running Work into Background Jobs
Chapter 9: Monitoring, Diagnostics, and Performance Review
Start your ASP.NET Core 10 journey today and learn how to build fast,
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