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Practical Microservices with Dapr and .NET - Second Edition

By : Davide Bedin
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Practical Microservices with Dapr and .NET - Second Edition

By: Davide Bedin

Overview of this book

This second edition will help you get to grips with microservice architectures and how to manage application complexities with Dapr in no time. You'll understand how Dapr simplifies development while allowing you to work with multiple languages and platforms. Following a C# sample, you'll understand how Dapr's runtime, building blocks, and software development kits (SDKs) help you to simplify the creation of resilient and portable microservices. Dapr provides an event-driven runtime that supports the essential features you need for building microservices, including service invocation, state management, and publish/subscribe messaging. You'll explore all of those in addition to various other advanced features with this practical guide to learning Dapr. With a focus on deploying the Dapr sample application to an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster and to the Azure Container Apps serverless platform, you’ll see how to expose the Dapr application with NGINX, YARP, and Azure API Management. By the end of this book, you'll be able to write microservices easily by implementing industry best practices to solve problems related to distributed systems.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Dapr
5
Part 2: Building Microservices with Dapr
11
Part 3: Deploying and Scaling Dapr Solutions

Introducing our sample solution

In order to navigate the concepts of Dapr throughout this book, we could use the help of a common theme to guide us. I thought that a fictional scenario, with an architecture that we will implement together, might be a good approach for the samples.

Therefore, let’s introduce the architecture of Biscotti Brutti Ma Buoni. In our quest to explore Dapr, it’s time to move away from the Hello-World kind of samples and shift to a hypothetical e-commerce scenario, which will be presented from different perspectives to illustrate each of Dapr’s capabilities over the course of the following chapters.

The architecture of the fictional e-commerce site Biscotti Brutti Ma Buoni (which means ugly but good cookies in Italian) is further discussed from a microservices perspective in Appendix, Microservices Architecture with Dapr.

In a nutshell, the Biscotti Brutti Ma Buoni website sells cookies to consumers, offering the ability to customize...