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Building Microservices with .NET Core

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Product type Book
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785887833
Pages 274 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (3):
Gaurav Aroraa Gaurav Aroraa
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Lalit Kale Lalit Kale
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Manish Kanwar Manish Kanwar
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

1. What Are Microservices? 2. Building Microservices 3. Integration Techniques 4. Testing Strategies 5. Deployment 6. Security 7. Monitoring 8. Scaling 9. Reactive Microservices 10. Creating a Complete Microservice Solution

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
  • Database access

The cost paid for being self-contained was that all the components were interconnected and interdependent. A minor change in any module had the capability to impact the entire piece of software. With all the components so tightly coupled in this manner, it made testing...

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