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C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 High Performance

By : Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan
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C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 High Performance

By: Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan

Overview of this book

While writing an application, performance is paramount. Performance tuning for realworld applications often involves activities geared toward fnding bottlenecks; however, this cannot solve the dreaded problem of slower code. If you want to improve the speed of your code and optimize an application's performance, then this book is for you. C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 High Performance begins with an introduction to the new features of what?explaining how they help in improving an application's performance. Learn to identify the bottlenecks in writing programs and highlight common performance pitfalls, and learn strategies to detect and resolve these issues early. You will explore multithreading and asynchronous programming with .NET Core and learn the importance and effcient use of data structures. This is followed with memory management techniques and design guidelines to increase an application’s performance. Gradually, the book will show you the importance of microservices architecture for building highly performant applications and implementing resiliency and security in .NET Core. After reading this book, you will learn how to structure and build scalable, optimized, and robust applications in C#7 and .NET.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Designing Guidelines for .NET Core Application Performance

Storing sensitive information using Application Secrets

Every application has some configuration holding sensitive information, such as database connection strings, the secret keys of some third providers, and other sensitive information usually stored in the configuration files or the database. It is always a better option to secure all sensitive information to protect these resources from intruders. Web applications are usually hosted on servers, and this information can be read by just navigating to the server's path and accessing files, even though servers always have protected access and only authorized users are eligible to access the data. However, keeping information in plain text is not a good practice.

In .NET Core, we can use the Secret Manager tool to protect the sensitive information of an application. The Secret Manager tool allows you to store information in...