Explore the current and future landscape of APIs and microservices in ASP.NET Core through this comprehensive conference talk. Delve into key topics such as HTTPClientFactory, dev time API tooling, non-HTTP workloads, background tasks, and queues. Gain insights into existing features and understand the rationale behind their development. Discover how these components are expected to evolve in the future, enhancing the capabilities of modern backends and microservices. Learn from Glenn Condron's expertise as he demonstrates current functionalities and provides a forward-looking perspective on ASP.NET Core's role in building robust and scalable distributed systems.