Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core: Developing Distributed Web Services to improve scalability with .NET Core 2.0 and ASP.NET Core 2.0 - Softcover

Aroraa, Gaurav; Dash, Tadit

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788291573 ISBN 13: 9781788291576

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Build an end-to-end e-commerce and shopping cart application with the latest .NET Core framework

Key Features

• Explore techniques such as clustering and caching to achieve a reactive and scalable web service
• Use .NET Framework to quickly implement RESTful endpoints
• Learn to implement a client library for a RESTful web service using ASP.NET Core

Book Description

REST is an architectural style that tackles the challenges of building scalable web services. In today's connected world, APIs have become synonymous with REST as it provides the fabric through which systems can interact. In addition to this, ASP .NET Core features such as unified MVC and dependency injection make it easier for developers to build and work on web APIs.

Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core guides you through the designing of RESTful web services and their implementation using the ASP.NET Core framework. You'll learn about the basic concepts related to REST as well as the steps for designing and implementing an enterprise-grade RESTful web service. The book also demonstrates the power of the latest .NET Core release with MVC and enables you to apply it in your projects. As you progress, you’ll understand how to use the framework to tackle resilience, security, and scalability concerns. Later chapters will focus on how to improve the workability and performance of your applications. Finally, you'll get to grips with techniques to manage security in web APIs and discover how to implement unit and integration test strategies.

By the end of this book, you will have learned how to build a client for RESTful web services along with a number of scaling techniques.

What you will learn

• Add basic authentication to your RESTful API
• Create a Carts Controller and Orders Controller to manage and process orders
• Intercept HTTP requests and responses by building your own middleware
• Test service calls using Postman and the Advanced REST Client
• Secure your data and application using annotations
• Get insights into microservices with ASP .NET Core

Who This Book Is For

This book is for any developer who wants to build RESTful web services with the latest .NET Core framework. Basic knowledge of C# and .NET Core is assumed.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started
2. Build Initial Framework – Layout Foundation of Application
3. User registration and Administration
4. Item catalogue Cart and Checkout
5. Integrating external components and handling
6. Testing RESTful Web Services
7. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
8. Securing RESTful Web Services
9. Scaling RESTful Services (Performance of Web Services)
10. Building a Web Client (Consuming Web Services)
11. Introduction to microservices

About this title

About the Author

Gaurav Aroraa is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional [MVP] and has a degree of MPhil in computer science. His 19 years of experience in software development and application support using Microsoft Technologies spans across domains, such as aeronautics, finance, insurance, healthcare, construction, and media. He is a Scrum Certified Trainer/Coach, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist, XEN certified for ITIL-F, and APMG certified for PRINCE-F and PRINCE-P. Gaurav likes to learn new processes and technologies and sharing his experiences with people.

He is a founder of InnatusCuro Software LLC, and his present responsibilities include application architecture, defining strategy for continuous integration, and deployment. Gaurav also plays a vital community role through the IndiaMentor platform. He is also managing DotNetSpider as a Webmaster.

Tadit Dash

Answering questions on online forums and social channels is the activity he enjoys the most.

Due to his exceptional contribution to the technical community, Microsoft has awarded him with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional accolade since 2014. CodeProject has awarded him the CodeProject MVP accolade (the first from Odisha and three times in a row for the years 2014, 2015, and 2016). For his constant mentorship, IndiaMentor featured him as a Young Mentor on their site.

He was recognized by DZone and awarded the Most Valuable Blogger accolade.

He was awarded the "Star" and "Achiever" accolade from his organization.

Motivating students in his sessions is something he is popular for. He is a regular technical and motivational speaker. He has spoken in many local events organized by different communities. He was a featured speaker in DevTechDay Nepal.

Recently, he delivered his first TEDx talk, which can be found on youtube.

He has co-authored the popular book "Dependency Injection in .NET Core 2.0".

You can follow him on twitter: @taditdash and facebook: @taditdash.

Review

"One of the best ASP.NET books of all time" - BookAuthority

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1788291573
• ISBN 13: 9781788291576
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 334