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ASP.NET Core 2 High Performance - Second Edition

By : James Singleton
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ASP.NET Core 2 High Performance - Second Edition

By: James Singleton

Overview of this book

The ASP.NET Core 2 framework is used to develop high-performance and cross-platform web applications. It is built on .NET Core 2 and includes significantly more framework APIs than version 1. This book addresses high-level performance improvement techniques. It starts by showing you how to locate and measure problems and then shows you how to solve some of the most common ones. Next, it shows you how to get started with ASP.NET Core 2 on Windows, Mac, Linux, and with Docker containers. The book illustrates what problems can occur as latency increases when deploying to a cloud infrastructure. It also shows you how to optimize C# code and choose the best data structures for the job. It covers new features in C# 6 and 7, along with parallel programming and distributed architectures. By the end of this book, you will be fixing latency issues and optimizing performance problems, but you will also know how this affects the complexity and maintenance of your application. Finally, we will explore a few highly advanced techniques for further optimization.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
3
Setting Up Your Environment
4
Measuring Performance Bottlenecks

Summary


In this chapter, you saw how to get started with the three most popular operating systems that .NET Core 2 supports. You learned about the selection of tools available on each platform and the different ways of using ASP.NET Core 2.

You also discovered the benefits of containers and appreciated how they can be used. You're encouraged to take the examples from this chapter, mix them up, and extend them to the environments that you require. There is a lot of cross-over between platforms and tooling today, so many of these lessons are transferable.

We hope that you will be inspired to try something new by seeing what alternatives are available. Simply spin up a new VM (perhaps in the cloud) and get hacking away!

In the next chapter, we will get into the main focus of this book: performance. We will build on what you have just learned about tooling and show you how to measure your software to see whether it's slow. You will see how to identify what parts of the code need improvement, if...