This template combines fundamental concepts usually found within Web APIs or RESTful services.

Some of them are (I will try to add to the list as I update it):

1) CQRS
2) Unit of Work pattern
3) Generic Repository pattern
4) Extending Repositories
5) RESTful/API concepts
6) Filters
7) Middlewares
8) Pagination
9) Bulk, Batch CRUD operations
10) Migrations with default data
11) Testing with xUnit 
12) Parameterized testing
13) Consuming External Services
14) Blob Storage
15) Application Insights
16) AutoMapper with Resolvers and constructors
17) Serilog
18) Some other things that I forget at the moment :)