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Building Microservices with .NET Core 2.0 - Second Edition

By : Gaurav Aroraa
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Building Microservices with .NET Core 2.0 - Second Edition

By: Gaurav Aroraa

Overview of this book

The microservices architectural style 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 your business. We'll start by looking at what microservices are and their main characteristics. Moving forward, you will be introduced to real-life application scenarios; after assessing the current issues, we will begin the journey of transforming this application by splitting it into a suite of microservices using C# 7.0 with .NET Core 2.0. You will identify service boundaries, split the application into multiple microservices, and define 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 reactive microservices, you’ll strategically gain further value to keep your code base simple, focusing on what is more important rather than on messy asynchronous calls.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Architectures before microservices

Microservices were never designed from the ground up to be in the present form. Instead, there has been a gradual transition from other forms of prevalent architecture styles to microservices. Prior to microservices, we had the monolithic architecture and service-oriented architecture that reigned over the world of enterprise development.

Let's delve into these two before doing a quick recap of microservices and their various attributes and advantages.

The monolithic architecture

The monolithic architecture has been around for quite some time and it results in self-contained software with a single .NET assembly. It consists of the following components:

  • User interface
  • Business logic
  • ...