Setting up authentication in .NET 10

A quick walkthrough of wiring ASP.NET Core Identity with cookie auth, protecting controllers, and adding a login page — the way I do it in every new project.

EF Core migrations in production - what nobody tells you

The migration commands you already know, plus the ones you need when the first deploy fails and you are staring at a locked database at 2am.

Dependency Injection in ASP.NET Core - the practical guide

Scoped vs Transient vs Singleton explained with a real bug each one causes, plus the composition-root pattern I use in every .NET project.