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ASP.NET Core
Microsoft's cross-platform, high-performance framework for building modern web applications
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Scalability
very high
Performance
very high
Learning Curve
moderate
Maturity
mature
Languages: C#, F#
Architecture: MVC, Razor Pages, Blazor, Web API
When to Use
- +Microsoft stack
- +Enterprise requirements
- +High performance needed
When Not to Use
- -Non-Microsoft preference
- -Simple CRUD apps
Strengths
- High performance
- Cross-platform
- Strong typing
- Azure integration
Weaknesses
- Microsoft ecosystem bias
- Complex for simple apps
Operations
Maintenance
medium
Monitoring
medium
Backup/Recovery
moderate
Hosting: self-hosted, cloud, managed
Quick Facts
- Category
- Backend Framework
- License
- open source
- Pricing
- free (free tier)
- Community
- very large
- Docs Quality
- excellent
- Trend
- growing
- Vendor Lock-in
- low
- Data Portability
- moderate
Compliance
GDPR
HIPAA
SOC 2
PCI-DSS
Encryption
Audit Logs
RBAC
MFA
Best For
smallmediumlargeenterprise
Use Cases
- Enterprise apps
- Web APIs
- Real-time apps
- Cloud-native
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