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Building Microservices with .NET Core

By : Gaurav Aroraa, Lalit Kale, Manish Kanwar
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Building Microservices with .NET Core

By: Gaurav Aroraa, Lalit Kale, Manish Kanwar

Overview of this book

Microservices is an architectural style that promotes the development of complex applications as a suite of small services based on business capabilities. This book will help you identify the appropriate service boundaries within the business. We'll start by looking at what microservices are, and what the main characteristics are. Moving forward, you will be introduced to real-life application scenarios, and after assessing the current issues, we will begin the journey of transforming this application by splitting it into a suite of microservices. You will identify the service boundaries, split the application into multiple microservices, and define the service contracts. You will find out how to configure, deploy, and monitor microservices, and configure scaling to allow the application to quickly adapt to increased demand in the future. With an introduction to the reactive microservices, you strategically gain further value to keep your code base simple, focusing on what is more important rather than the messy asynchronous calls.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Chapter 8. Scaling

Imagine you are part of a development and support team that is responsible for developing the company's flagship product: TaxCloud. TaxCloud helps taxpayers file their own taxes and charges them a small fee upon the successful filing of taxes. Consider you had developed this application using microservices. Now say the product gets popular and gains traction, and suddenly, on the last day of tax filing, you get a rush of consumers wanting to use your product and file their taxes. However, the payments service of your system is slow, which has almost brought the system down, and all the new customers are moving to your competitor's product. This is a lost opportunity for your business.

Even though this is a fictitious scenario, it can very well happen to any business. In e-commerce, we have always experienced these kinds of things in real life, especially on special occasions such as Christmas and Black Fridays. All in all, they point toward one major significant characteristic...