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

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Key Features

• Follow best practices and explore techniques such as clustering and caching to achieve a reactive, scalable web service
• Leverage the .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 taken a central role on the web. APIs provide the fabric through which systems interact, and REST has become synonymous with APIs. The depth, breadth, and ease of use of ASP.NET Core, makes it a breeze for developers to work with it to build robust Web APIs. This book will take you through the design of RESTful web services and leverages the ASP.NET Core Framework to implement these services.

This book begins with introducing you to the basics of the philosophy behind REST, you'll go through the steps of designing and implementing an enterprise-grade RESTful web service. This book takes a practical approach and with each chapter provides you with code samples that you can apply to your own circumstances. This book brings forth the power of the latest .NET Core release, working with MVC. Later you understand the use of the framework to explore approaches to tackle resilience, security, and scalability concerns. You will explore the steps to improve the performance of your applications with the new HTTP 2.0 standards. You'll also learn techniques to deal with security in Web APIs and discover how to implement unit and integration test strategies.

By the end of the book, you will have a complete understanding of building a .NET client for your RESTful web service, along with some scaling techniques.

What you will learn

• Build an application and live reload it using gulp
• Add Basic authentication to your REST API
• Create ship controller for retrieving, updating and inserting new shipment records.
• Intercept HTTP requests and responses with building our own middleware using IApplicationBuilder
• Test services calls using PostMan, Advanced RESTClient
• Secure your data/application using Annotations

Who This Book Is For

This book is intended for those who want to learn to build RESTful web services with the latest .NET Core Framework. To make best use of the code samples included in the book, you should have a basic knowledge of C# and .NET Core.

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.

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