You're reading from Software Architecture with C# 9 and .NET 5 Architecting software solutions using microservices, DevOps, and design patterns for Azure

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800566040

Length 700 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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.NET

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Design Patterns

Authors (2):

Gabriel Baptista

Francesco Abbruzzese

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Understanding the Importance of Software Architecture

2. Non-Functional Requirements FREE CHAPTER

3. Documenting Requirements with Azure DevOps

4. Deciding the Best Cloud-Based Solution

5. Applying a Microservice Architecture to Your Enterprise Application

6. Azure Service Fabric

7. Azure Kubernetes Service

8. Interacting with Data in C# – Entity Framework Core

9. How to Choose Your Data Storage in the Cloud

10. Working with Azure Functions

11. Design Patterns and .NET 5 Implementation

12. Understanding the Different Domains in Software Solutions

13. Implementing Code Reusability in C# 9

14. Applying Service-Oriented Architectures with .NET Core

15. Presenting ASP.NET Core MVC

16. Blazor WebAssembly

17. Best Practices in Coding C# 9

18. Testing Your Code with Unit Test Cases and TDD

19. Using Tools to Write Better Code

20. Understanding DevOps Principles

21. Challenges of Applying CI Scenarios

22. Automation for Functional Tests

23. Answers

24. Another Book You May Enjoy

25. Index

How to Choose Your Data Storage in the Cloud

Azure, like other clouds, offers a wide range of storage devices. The simplest approach is to define a scalable set of virtual machines hosted in the cloud where we can implement our custom solutions. For instance, we can create a SQL Server cluster on our cloud-hosted virtual machines to increase reliability and computational power. However, usually, custom architectures are not the optimal solution and do not take full advantage of the opportunities offered by the cloud infrastructure.

Therefore, this chapter will not discuss such custom architectures but will focus mainly on the various Platform as a Service (PaaS) storage offerings that are available in the cloud and on Azure. These offerings include scalable solutions based on plain disk space, relational databases, NoSQL databases, and in-memory data stores such as Redis.

Choosing a more adequate storage type is based not only on the application's functional...