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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)

Scaling the infrastructure


In this section, we will visit all the layers of the microservice infrastructure and see them in relation to each other, that is, how each individual infrastructure layer can be scaled. For our microservice implementation, there are two major components. One is virtual machines and the other is the container hosted on virtual or physical machines. The following diagram shows a logical view of the microservice infrastructure:

Scaling virtual machines using scale sets

Scaling virtual machines is quite simple and easy in Azure Cloud. This is where microservices shine through. With scale sets, you can raise the instances of the same virtual machine images in a short amount of time, and that automatically too, based on the ruleset. Scale sets are integrated with Azure autoscale.

Azure virtual machines can be created in a way that as a group, they would always serve the requests even if the volume of the requests increases. In specific situations, they can also be deleted...