Summary
In this chapter, we discussed common practices in ASP.NET Core web API development, such as HTTP status codes, asynchronous programming, pagination, response types, and API documentation. We also explored several caching techniques, including in-memory caching, distributed caching, response caching, and output caching. Each technique has its own advantages and disadvantages, so it is important to consider the trade-offs and choose the appropriate caching strategy for the given scenario. Additionally, we discussed the IHttpClientFactory interface, which simplifies the management of HttpClient instances and allows us to use dependency injection to inject HttpClient instances into the application without worrying about their life cycle.
In the next chapter, we will discuss how to handle errors in ASP.NET Core web API applications and how to monitor the applications using OpenTelemetry.
