Preface

Distributed systems are always difficult to get complete success with. Lately, microservices have been getting considerable attention. With Netflix and Spotify, microservices implementations have some of the biggest success stories in the industry. Microservices is quickly gaining popularity and acceptance with enterprise architects. On the other hand, there is another camp that thinks microservices as nothing new or only as a rebranding of SOA.

In any case, microservices architecture has critical advantages, particularly with regard to empowering the nimble improvement and conveyance of complex venture applications.

However, there is no clear practical advice on how to implement microservices in the Microsoft ecosystem and especially with taking advantage of Azure and the .NET Core framework.

This book tries to fill that void. It explores the concepts, challenges, and strengths of planning, constructing, and operating microservices architectures built with .NET Core. This book discusses all cross-cutting concerns, along with the microservices design. It also highlights the more important aspects to consider while building and operating microservices through practical how tos and best practices for security, monitoring, and scalability.