Software Architecture with C# 9 and .NET 5: Architecting software solutions using microservices, DevOps, and design patterns for Azure
, Second Edition
Gain fundamental and comprehensive software architecture knowledge and the skillset to create fully modular apps
Design high-performance software systems using the latest features of .NET 5 and C# 9
Solve scalability problems in web apps using enterprise architecture patterns
Description
Software architecture is the practice of implementing structures and systems that streamline the software development process and improve the quality of an app. This fully revised and expanded second edition, featuring the latest features of .NET 5 and C# 9, enables you to acquire the key skills, knowledge, and best practices required to become an effective software architect.
This second edition features additional explanation of the principles of Software architecture, including new chapters on Azure Service Fabric, Kubernetes, and Blazor. It also includes more discussion on security, microservices, and DevOps, including GitHub deployments for the software development cycle.
You will begin by understanding how to transform user requirements into architectural needs and exploring the differences between functional and non-functional requirements. Next, you will explore how to carefully choose a cloud solution for your infrastructure, along with the factors that will help you manage your app in a cloud-based environment.
Finally, you will discover software design patterns and various software approaches that will allow you to solve common problems faced during development.
By the end of this book, you will be able to build and deliver highly scalable enterprise-ready apps that meet your organization’s business requirements.
Who is this book for?
This book is for engineers and senior software developers aspiring to become architects or looking to build enterprise applications with the .NET Stack. Basic familiarity with C# and .NET is required to get the most out of this book.
What you will learn
Use different techniques to overcome real-world architectural challenges and solve design consideration issues
Apply architectural approaches such as layered architecture, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and microservices
Leverage tools such as containers, Docker, Kubernetes, and Blazor to manage microservices effectively
Get up to speed with Azure tools and features for delivering global solutions
Program and maintain Azure Functions using C# 9 and its latest features
Understand when it is best to use test-driven development (TDD) as an approach for software development
Write automated functional test cases
Get the best of DevOps principles to enable CI/CD environments
As software architects there are many aspects to an enterprise, distributed system to consider – not just the code. This book gives you a great introduction to the next step along your software development journey, including the proper principles, processes, techniques and technology needed to architect a modern cloud-based, distributed system. While the concepts are generally applicable, this book gives practical examples in context of the .NET and Azure ecosystem.After reading this book will you be an expert .NET software architect? No. That will take time to achieve. In fact each chapter could be, and usually is, a book by itself. However, what I like about this book is it summarizes in a single coherent place a great overview of the topics that are scattered across various sources.When you finish the book you will have the broad spectrum of knowledge required to be a software architect. Think of the book as a map, guiding you along this journey … and Gabriel and Francesco are experienced guides, not only telling you where to go but why, which is just as if not more important.To help they created a case study project, World Wide Travel Club, that is used throughout the book to concretely demonstrate topics. Also there are questions at the end of each chapter to help test your knowledge and lots of references for further reading.I’m not sure the Azure Service Fabric chapter was needed. Service Fabric is a great service orchestrator and was the original Azure service orchestrator. But Kubernetes has won the service orchestrator war and is now the defacto standard now for orchestrating distributed services, especially given its open source, cross-platform support the importance of this chapter is diminished. Even Microsoft is starting to move some of their services from Service Fabric to Kubernetes. Microsoft Teams is one example. I would have used the space to expand on a few more topics.From analysis, design, agile/scrum, cloud and microservice architectures, serverless, Kubernetes, data access, distributed storage, design patterns, domain-driven design, code reuse, REST APIs, Blazor WebAssembly, testing, dev ops, you can’t go wrong with this book.Highly recommended! I’m going to recommend it to the dev teams I work with.A great complimentary book is Mark J. Price’s book C# 9 and .NET 5 – Modern Cross-Platform Development.
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Roberto BelmonteJun 12, 2021
5
The best book of Software Architecture C# 9 and .NET5 include a section on Blazor.
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PrivateMeggidoFeb 12, 2021
5
The amount of content presented in this holistic view of the necessary steps to provide full modern cloud solutions using the bleeding edge Microsoft tools and services is astounding.The book organization is very good as a template to follow up and build, bit by bit, a working living example of the contents.From the initial chapters covering the design process, the early documentation, environment setup and team management basics, to the different server features and how to put them together to the consumption of those services using the framework tools, all the content seems to flow naturally towards designing and implementing a full .NET Azure hosted solution.Technical content is well illustrated (and up to date as of the writing of this review) and covers the essentials and the pitfalls of whichever area is being illustrated. Queues, databases, kubernetes administration, containers, service design, operation and publishing are all dealt with with plenty of great examples.The text concentrates naturally on Azure services, so while there are mentions of other technologies, they are a bit brief. To be honest this can be considered both in favor and against the book, but I rather have something concise and clear than greedy when it comes to content.The structure of the book covers each theme fully during a chapter, concluding with a good set of questions, common commentary and pitfalls and a well curated list of extra material.Overall, this is a very good and to the point structure to complete a project. I followed the steps using my Azure account and was able to delve into the contents as I was going through the chapters.If you are using or planning on using Azure as your platform for your solution, this will get you there without unnecessary fluff, while covering pretty much all areas needed that such project architecture would require.
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EHzAug 23, 2021
5
This book is a very good well written book for a programmer new to the subject of .NET5, C#, and Cross Platform Programming. It is extensive in its knowledge base and excellent in its documentation using clear examples and walkthroughs as well as using extensive references to knowledge bases and other documentation and so far from what I can tell is free from any notable errors. It is a complete coverage of the subject matter from beginner to pro level. I highly recommend it for any beginner, intermediate programmer, or for a pro that is migrating to the specified technologies. I did not buy it through Amazon but through the publisher's website which is also a great website.
Gabriel Baptista has been working with software development since the beginning of .NET. Today, his main contributions are managing numerous projects for retail and industry. He is an Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution specialist, teaches at Computing Engineering universities, and helps tech startups as a mentor.
Francesco Abbruzzese dedicates his life to his two great passions: software and powerlifting. He is the author of the MVC Controls Toolkit and the Blazor Controls Toolkit libraries. He has contributed to the diffusion and evangelization of the Microsoft web stack since the first version of ASP.NET. His company, Mvcct Team, offers web applications, tools, and services for web technologies. He has moved from AI systems, where he implemented one of the first decision support systems for financial institutions, to top-10 video game titles such as Puma Street Soccer.
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