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A .NET 9 runbook for HttpClient resilience pipelines, idempotency keys, and safe retries, with practical code to prevent retry storms in production APIs.
ASP.NET Core 9 rate limiting runbook with partitioned policies, Retry-After handling, and practical backpressure patterns to protect API fairness at scale.
ASP.NET Core output caching for .NET 9 APIs: server-side policies, ETag revalidation, and safe tag-based invalidation to improve speed without stale data.
Practical .NET worker service graceful shutdown guide with Channels backpressure, Polly retry boundaries, and OpenTelemetry, so queue-driven jobs stop cleanly.
If you want an API that starts fast, uses less memory, and is still production-safe, this guide is for you. You will build a .NET 9 Minimal API with Native AOT for faster cold starts, a practical rate limiter to…