What this book covers

Chapter 1, What Are Microservices?, makes you familiar with microservices architectural styles, history, and how it differs from its predecessors, monolithic architecture and service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Chapter 2, Building Microservices, gives you an idea of the different factors that can be used to identify and isolate microservices at a high level, what the characteristics of a good service are, and how to achieve the vertical isolation of microservices.

Chapter 3, Integration Techniques, introduces synchronous and asynchronous communication, style of collaborations, and the API gateway.

Chapter 4, Testing Strategies, explores how testing microservices is different from testing a normal .NET application. It gets you acquainted with the testing pyramid.

Chapter 5, Deployment, covers how to deploy microservices and the best practices for it. It also takes into account the isolation factor, which is the key success factor, along with setting up continuous integration and continuous delivery to deliver business changes at a rapid pace.

Chapter 6, Security, describes how to secure microservices with OAuth and, also, container security and best practices in general.

Chapter 7, Monitoring, explains that debugging and monitoring microservices is not a trivial problem but a quite challenging one. We have used the word, challenging, on purpose--there is no silver bullet for this. There is no single tool in the .NET ecosystem that is, by design, made for microservices; however, Azure monitoring and troubleshooting is the most promising one.

Chapter 8, Scaling, explains that scalability is one of the critical advantages of pursuing the microservices architectural style. In this chapter, we will see scalability by design, and by infrastructure as well, with respect to the microservices architecture.

Chapter 9, Reactive Microservices, gets you familiar with the concept of reactive microservices. You will learn how you can build reactive microservices with the use of reactive extensions. The chapter will help you focus on your main task and free you from the chores of communicating across services.

Chapter 10, Creating a Complete Microservices Solution, will walk you through all the concepts of microservices that you have learned so far. Also, we will develop an application from scratch while putting all our skills to use.