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Microservices with Azure

You're reading from   Microservices with Azure Build highly maintainable and scalable enterprise-grade apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787121140
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Namit Tanasseri Namit Tanasseri
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Rahul Rai Rahul Rai
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Preface 1. Microservices – Getting to Know the Buzzword FREE CHAPTER 2. Microsoft Azure Platform and Services Primer 3. Understanding Azure Service Fabric 4. Hands-on with Service Fabric – Guest Executables 5. Hands on with Service Fabric – Reliable Services 6. Reliable Actors 7. Microservices Architecture Patterns Motivation 8. Microservices Architectural Patterns 9. Securing and Managing Your Microservices 10. Diagnostics and Monitoring 11. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment 12. Serverless Microservices

Actor communication

Actor interactions can only happen through contracts. Using the contracts, Actors can communicate with each other and also the clients can interact with Actors. Actors are responsible for implementing the interfaces which define these contracts. Using Service Fabric APIs, the client gets a proxy to an Actor via the same set of interfaces. Because this interface is used to invoke Actor methods asynchronously, every method on the interface must be task-returning.

Since any communication needs to take place over network, the communication interfaces should be serializable.

The Actor proxy

The Reliable Actors client API provides communication between an Actor instance and an Actor client. To communicate with...

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