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Gabriel Baptista
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Gabriel Baptista

Gabriel Baptista has been working with software development since the beginning of .NET. Today, his main contributions are managing numerous projects for retail and industry. He is an Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution specialist, teaches at Computing Engineering universities, and helps tech startups as a mentor.
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Francesco Abbruzzese
Francesco Abbruzzese
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Francesco Abbruzzese dedicates his life to his two great passions: software and powerlifting. He is the author of the MVC Controls Toolkit and the Blazor Controls Toolkit libraries. He has contributed to the diffusion and evangelization of the Microsoft web stack since the first version of ASP.NET. His company, Mvcct Team, offers web applications, tools, and services for web technologies. He has moved from AI systems, where he implemented one of the first decision support systems for financial institutions, to top-10 video game titles such as Puma Street Soccer.
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How does .NET deal with microservices?

The new .NET, which evolved from .NET Core, was conceived as a multi-platform framework that was light and fast enough to implement efficient microservices. In particular, ASP.NET Core is the ideal tool for implementing text REST and binary gRPC APIs to communicate with a microservice since it can run efficiently with lightweight web servers such as Kestrel and is itself light and modular.

The whole .NET stack evolved with microservices as a strategic deployment platform in mind and has facilities and packages for building efficient and light HTTP and gRPC communication to ensure service resiliency and to handle long-running tasks. The following subsections describe some of the different tools or solutions that we can use to implement a .NET-based microservice architecture.

.NET communication facilities

Microservices need two kinds of communication channels.

The first communication channel receives external requests, either directly...

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Gabriel Baptista

Gabriel Baptista has been working with software development since the beginning of .NET. Today, his main contributions are managing numerous projects for retail and industry. He is an Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution specialist, teaches at Computing Engineering universities, and helps tech startups as a mentor.
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Francesco Abbruzzese

Francesco Abbruzzese dedicates his life to his two great passions: software and powerlifting. He is the author of the MVC Controls Toolkit and the Blazor Controls Toolkit libraries. He has contributed to the diffusion and evangelization of the Microsoft web stack since the first version of ASP.NET. His company, Mvcct Team, offers web applications, tools, and services for web technologies. He has moved from AI systems, where he implemented one of the first decision support systems for financial institutions, to top-10 video game titles such as Puma Street Soccer.
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