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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

By: Gaurav Aroraa, Tadit Dash

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.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Introduction to scalability

Every application has its own ability to serve requests. An application’s ability refers to its performance and how it meets its objectives when load is increased.

Many web applications refer to this as a number of requests in a stipulated time.

It’s very important to make the right design decision when designing your web application; design decisions impact the scalability of your service. Be sure to strike the right balance so that your approach considers your services as well as their infrastructure, along with any need for scaling.

Performance and scalability are two different characteristics of a system. Performance deals with the throughput of the system, whereas scalability deals with serving the desired throughput for a larger number of users, or a larger number of transactions.

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