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Building Microservices with .NET Core: Develop skills in Reactive Microservices, database scaling, Azure Microservices, and more

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Building Microservices with .NET Core

DDD and its importance for microservices


Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is a methodology and a process of designing complex systems. In this section, we will briefly discuss DDD and how it is important in the context of microservices.

Domain model design

 The main objective of domain design is to understand the exact domain problems and then draft a model that can be written in any set of language/technologies. For example, in our Flix One bookstore application, we need to understand Order Management and Stock Management.

Here are a few characteristics of the domain-driven model:

  • A domain model should focus on a specific business model and not across multiple business models
  • It should be reusable
  • It should be designed in a way that it should be called in the loosely coupled way, unlike the rest of the system
  • It should be designed independently of persistence implementations.
  • It should be pulled out from a project to another location, so it should not be based on any infrastructure framework.

Importance...

The concept of Seam


At the very core of microservices lies the capability to work on a specific functionality in isolation from the rest of the system. This translates into all the advantages discussed earlier, such as reduced module dependency, code reusability, easier code maintenance, and better deployment.

In my opinion, the same attributes that were attained with the implementation of microservices should be maintained during the process of implementation. Why should the whole process of moving monoliths to microservices be painful and not be as rewarding as having the microservices itself? Just remember that the transition can't be done overnight and would need meticulous planning. Many capable solution architects have differed from my approach while presenting their highly capable teams. The answer lies not just in the points already mentioned but the risk to the business itself at the same time.

This is very well attainable. However, we must identify our way to the path correctly in...

Communication between microservices


In the preceding section, we separated our Order module into Order Services and discussed how we can break down the foreign key relationship between ORDER and PRODUCT tables.

In a monolithic application, we have a single repository that queries the database to fetch the records from both ORDER and PRODUCT tables. However, in our upcoming microservice application, we will segregate repositories between Order Service and Product Service. With each service having its respective database, each one would access its own database only. Order Service would only be able to access order Database, whereas Product Service would be able to access product Database only. Order Service should not be allowed to access product Database and vice versa. Refer to the following image:

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We will discuss communication between microservices in Chapter 3, Integration Techniques, in detail.

In the preceding figure, we see that our UI is interacting with Order Service and Product...

Revisiting the case study--Flix One


In the preceding chapter, we took an example of an imaginary company, Flix One Inc., operating in the e-commerce domain and having its own .NET monolithic application: Flix One book store. We have already discussed:

  • How to segregate the code
  • How to segregate the database
  • How to denormalize the database
  • How to begin transitioning
  • The available refactoring approaches 

In this section, we will start writing/transitioning .NET monolith to a microservice application.

Prerequisites

We will use the following tools and technologies while transitioning our monolithic application to the microservice-styled architecture:

  • Visual Studio 2015 or later
  • C# 6.0
  • ASP.NET Core MVC/Web API
  • Entity Framework
  • SQL Server

Transitioning to our product service

We already have our product module in place. We are going to pull back this module now and start with a new ASP.NET Core MVC project. For this, follow all the steps we discussed in the preceding sections and in Chapter 1, What Are Microservices...

Summary


In this chapter, we discussed different factors that can be used to identify and isolate microservices at a high level. We also discussed the various characteristics of a good service. Talking about DDD, we saw what its importance is in the context of microservices.

Further, we analyzed how we can correctly achieve vertical isolation of microservices through various parameters in detail. While we tried to draw upon our previous understanding of the challenges posed by a monolithic application and its solution in microservices, we saw that we can use factors such as module interdependency, technology utilization, and team structure to identify seams and perform the transition from a monolithic architecture to microservices in an organized manner.

It became apparent that the database can pose a clear challenge in the process. However, we identified how we can still perform this with a simple strategy and the possible approaches to do this. We then discussed that with the foreign keys...

Communication between microservices

In the preceding section, we separated our Order module into Order Services and discussed how we can break down the foreign key relationship between ORDER and PRODUCT tables.

In a monolithic application, we have a single repository that queries the database to fetch the records from both ORDER and PRODUCT tables. However, in our upcoming microservice application, we will segregate repositories between Order Service and Product Service. With each service having its respective database, each one would access its own database only. Order Service would only be able to access order Database, whereas Product Service would be able to access product Database only. Order Service should not be allowed to access product Database and vice versa. Refer to the following image:

We will discuss communication between microservices in Chapter 3, Integration...

Revisiting the case study--Flix One

In the preceding chapter, we took an example of an imaginary company, Flix One Inc., operating in the e-commerce domain and having its own .NET monolithic application: Flix One book store. We have already discussed:

  • How to segregate the code
  • How to segregate the database
  • How to denormalize the database
  • How to begin transitioning
  • The available refactoring approaches 

In this section, we will start writing/transitioning .NET monolith to a microservice application.

Prerequisites

We will use the following tools and technologies while transitioning our monolithic application to the microservice-styled architecture:

  • Visual Studio 2015 or later
  • C# 6.0
  • ASP.NET Core MVC/Web API
  • Entity Framework
  • SQL Server
...

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed different factors that can be used to identify and isolate microservices at a high level. We also discussed the various characteristics of a good service. Talking about DDD, we saw what its importance is in the context of microservices.

Further, we analyzed how we can correctly achieve vertical isolation of microservices through various parameters in detail. While we tried to draw upon our previous understanding of the challenges posed by a monolithic application and its solution in microservices, we saw that we can use factors such as module interdependency, technology utilization, and team structure to identify seams and perform the transition from a monolithic architecture to microservices in an organized manner.

It became apparent that the database can pose a clear challenge in the process. However, we identified how we can still perform this with a simple strategy...

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Key benefits

  • Start your microservices journey and understand a broader perspective of microservices development
  • Build, deploy, and test microservices using ASP.Net MVC, Web API, and Microsoft Azure Cloud
  • Get started with reactive microservices and understand the fundamentals behind it

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Microservices is an architectural style that promotes the development of complex applications as a suite of small services based on business capabilities. This book will help you identify the appropriate service boundaries within the business. We'll start by looking at what microservices are, and what the main characteristics are. Moving forward, you will be introduced to real-life application scenarios, and after assessing the current issues, we will begin the journey of transforming this application by splitting it into a suite of microservices. You will identify the service boundaries, split the application into multiple microservices, and define the service contracts. You will find out how to configure, deploy, and monitor microservices, and configure scaling to allow the application to quickly adapt to increased demand in the future. With an introduction to the reactive microservices, you strategically gain further value to keep your code base simple, focusing on what is more important rather than the messy asynchronous calls.

Who is this book for?

This book is for .NET Core developers who want to learn and understand microservices architecture and implement it in their .NET Core applications. It’s ideal for developers who are completely new to microservices or have just a theoretical understanding of this architectural approach and want to gain a practical perspective in order to better manage application complexity.

What you will learn

  • Compare microservices with monolithic applications and SOA
  • Identify the appropriate service boundaries by mapping them to the relevant bounded contexts
  • Define the service interface and implement the APIs using ASP.NET Web API
  • Integrate the services via synchronous and asynchronous mechanisms
  • Implement microservices security using Azure Active Directory, OpenID Connect, and OAuth 2.0
  • Understand the operations and scaling of microservices in .NET Core
  • Understand the testing pyramid and implement consumer-driven contract using pact net core
  • Understand what the key features of reactive microservices are and implement them using reactive extension
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I found out about this book researching Mircoservices. I read clips of information from the web out of this book. It sparked my interest and got me developing Microservices. This book is a great quick references as well.
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Good work!, This book introduce to you to Microservices paradigm with most clearly.However is focused to Microsoft Azure Cloud could be touch AWS services or custom hosted only with Kestrel and IIS services.
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Most of the explanations of this book just waffle on. About coverting a monolith to microservices rather than a step by step, I'm not very impressed by it.
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This is obviously aa very overpriced, very low quality book. It's published by Packt, which means pretty much anything can write one of these. Just look at the sample. Full of grammar errors and other weird things. Clearly written by non-english speakers who did not bother to use a proofreader. And it's over $40! What a joke...
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