Take advantage of authentication and authorization, API keys, rate limiting, CORS, API versioning, and other recommended practices to build secure and robust APIs in ASP.NET Core.

The system takes a behavioral approach to API security. “You have to understand the shape of your data, and if the requests are coming in following the shape you expect,” Gordon says.

We won’t be using any of those features here. Click Create. We’ll use this ASP.NET Core Web API project to measure API performance with MethodTimer.Fody in the sections below.