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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)

Containers

Container technology is not new to the Linux world. Containers are based on Linux's LXC technology. In this section, let's see how containers are important in the case of microservices.

What are containers?

A container is a piece of software in a complete filesystem. It contains everything that is needed to run code, runtime, system tools, and system libraries—anything that can be installed on a server. This guarantees that the software will always run in the same way, regardless of its environment. Containers share their host operating system and kernel with other containers on the same host. The technology around containers is not new. It has been a part of the Linux ecosystem for a long time...