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Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core

By : Gaurav Aroraa, Tadit Dash

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Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core

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By: Gaurav Aroraa, Tadit Dash

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Overview of this book

REST is an architectural style that tackles the challenges of building scalable web services. In today's connected world, APIs have taken a central role on the web. APIs provide the fabric through which systems interact, and REST has become synonymous with APIs. The depth, breadth, and ease of use of ASP.NET Core makes it a breeze for developers to work with for building robust web APIs. This book takes you through the design of RESTful web services and leverages the ASP.NET Core framework to implement these services. This book begins by introducing you to the basics of the philosophy behind REST. You'll go through the steps of designing and implementing an enterprise-grade RESTful web service. This book takes a practical approach, that you can apply to your own circumstances. This book brings forth the power of the latest .NET Core release, working with MVC. Later, you will learn about the use of the framework to explore approaches to tackle resilience, security, and scalability concerns. You will explore the steps to improve the performance of your applications. You'll also learn techniques to deal with security in web APIs and discover how to implement unit and integration test strategies. By the end of the book, you will have a complete understanding of Building a client for RESTful web services, along with some scaling techniques.

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Getting Started

Discussing RESTful services

ASP.NET Core and RESTful services

Summary

Building the Initial Framework – Laying the Foundation of the Application

SOAP

REST

Setting up the environment

SOAP versus REST

Single-page application model

Service-oriented architecture

Summary

User Registration and Administration

Why authentication and limiting requests?

Database design

User registration

Adding basic authentication to our REST API

Adding OAuth 2.0 authentication to our service

Client-based API-consumption architecture

Summary

Item Catalogue, Cart, and Checkout

Implementing controllers

Product listing

Product searching

Adding to cart

Implementing security

Placing orders

Exposing shipping details

Summary

Integrating External Components and Handling

Understanding the middleware

Adding logging to our API in middleware

Summary

Testing RESTful Web Services

Test paradigms

Testing approach

Types of tests

Summary

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

Introduction – deployment terminology

The Azure environment

Publishing/hosting

Summary

Securing RESTful Web Services

OWASP security standards

Securing RESTful web services

Authentication and authorization in action

Summary

Scaling RESTful Services (Performance of Web Services)

Clustering

Load balancing

Introduction to scalability

Distributed caching

Summary

Building a Web Client (Consuming Web Services)

Consuming RESTful web services

Building a REST web client

Implementing a REST web client

Summary

Introduction to Microservices

Overview of microservices

Understanding microservice architecture

Communication in microservices

Why we should use microservices

How a microservice architecture works

Advantages of microservices

Scaling

DevOps culture

Microservices ecosystem in ASP.NET Core

Summary

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The microservice architecture style provides certain benefits. It makes development quick and easy. It allows DevOps (CI and CD) teams to be separated geologically, work smoothly, and in sync. An application is divided into small service components or pieces so maintenance is easy. This allows the development team to let business sponsors choose what industry trends to respond to first. This results in cost benefits, better business responses, timely technology adoption, effective scaling, and removal of human dependence.

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