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Hands-On RESTful Web Services with ASP.NET Core 3

By : Samuele Resca
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Hands-On RESTful Web Services with ASP.NET Core 3

By: Samuele Resca

Overview of this book

In recent times, web services have evolved to play a prominent role in web development. Applications are now designed to be compatible with any device and platform, and web services help us keep their logic and UI separate. Given its simplicity and effectiveness in creating web services, the RESTful approach has gained popularity, and this book will help you build RESTful web services using ASP.NET Core. This REST book begins by introducing you to the basics of the REST philosophy, where you'll study the different stages of designing and implementing enterprise-grade RESTful web services. You'll also gain a thorough understanding of ASP.NET Core's middleware approach and learn how to customize it. The book will later guide you through improving API resilience, securing your service, and applying different design patterns and techniques to achieve a scalable web service. In addition to this, you'll learn advanced techniques for caching, monitoring, and logging, along with implementing unit and integration testing strategies. In later chapters, you will deploy your REST web services on Azure and document APIs using Swagger and external tools such as Postman. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to design RESTful web services confidently using ASP.NET Core with a focus on code testability and maintainability.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Getting Started
3
Section 2: Overview of ASP.NET Core
10
Section 3: Building a Real-World RESTful API
19
Section 4: Advanced Concepts for Building Services

Introducing worker services

.NET Core worker services can be really useful every time we need to perform a repetitive or background-running operation. In more detail, they can be used in the application layer to enable asynchronous operations and handle the events of an event-based architecture. If every time you need to publish or listen for a message, you need to refresh data based on a schedule, or your application needs to queue a background work item, then you should probably use a worker service. Furthermore, with worker services, it is possible to run multiple background tasks on the same server without consuming a lot of resources.

The foundation of worker services in .NET Core is the IHostedService interface. The out-of-the-box worker service template can be used as a guideline to start implementing our worker service project. More importantly, the IHostedService interface...