Stop forcing complex business logic into basic CRUD operations. Five actionable patterns for designing RESTful APIs that communicate true intent — when to nest sub-resources, how to model complex actions, and why RPC-style verbs can be an acceptable compromise.
Eight practical rules to protect architectural boundaries, ensure entity encapsulation and maintain aggregate root consistency before your codebase starts to degrade.
What the compiler actually generates for semi-auto properties, and where the new field keyword fits next to backing fields you write yourself.
Break tangled, nested queries into readable, named steps with common table expressions — including recursive CTEs for hierarchical data.