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Hands-On Mobile Development with .NET Core

By : Can Bilgin
Book Image

Hands-On Mobile Development with .NET Core

By: Can Bilgin

Overview of this book

.NET Core is the general umbrella term used for Microsoft’s cross-platform toolset. Xamarin, used for developing mobile applications, is one of the app model implementations for .NET Core infrastructure. In this book, you'll learn how to design, architect, and develop attractive, maintainable, and robust mobile applications for multiple platforms, including iOS, Android, and UWP, with the toolset provided by Microsoft using Xamarin, .NET Core, and Azure Cloud Services. This book will take you through various phases of application development using Xamarin, from environment setup, design, and architecture to publishing, with the help of real-world scenarios. Throughout the book, you'll learn how to develop mobile apps using Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms, and .NET Standard. You'll even be able to implement a web-based backend composed of microservices with .NET Core using various Azure services including, but not limited to, Azure App Services, Azure Active Directory, Notification Hub, Logic Apps, Azure Functions, and Cognitive Services. The book then guides you in creating data stores using popular database technologies such as Cosmos DB, SQL, and Realm. Finally, you will be able to set up an efficient and maintainable development pipeline to manage the application life cycle using Visual Studio App Center and Visual Studio Services.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Integrating with Redis cache


In a distributed cloud application with a fine-grained microservice architecture, distributed caching can provide much desired data coherence, as well as performance improvements. Generally speaking, the distribution of the infrastructure, the data model, as well as costs, are deciding factors regarding whether to use a distributed cache implementation.

ASP.NET Core offers various caching options, one of which is distributed caching. The available distributed cache options are as follows:

  • Distributed memory cache
  • Distributed SQL server cache
  • Distributed Redis caches

While the memory cache is not a production-ready strategy, SQL and Redis can be viable options for a cloud application that's been developed with .NET Core. However, in the case of a NoSQL database and semi-structured data, Redis would be an ideal choice. Let's see how we can introduce a distributed cache and make it ready for use:

  1. In order to introduce a distributed cache that can be used across controllers...