ASP.NET Core API

ASP.NET Core is Microsoft's modern, open-source web framework for building APIs and web applications. It runs on .NET (the unified runtime), supports C#, and compiles to fast machine code. ASP.NET Core consistently ranks as the fastest web framework in benchmarks, with strong built-in support for async/await, dependency injection, logging, and testing. Core capabilities: routing, middleware pipeline, Entity Framework ORM, built-in OpenAPI/Swagger, and cloud-native patterns (containers, health checks, structured logging).