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

Concepts

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

Using design techniques as a helpful tool

Defining a solution is not easy. Determining its technology increases the difficulty of doing so. It is true that, during your career as a software architect, you will find many projects where your customer will bring you a solution ready for development. This can get quite complicated if you consider that solution as the correct solution; most of the time, there will be architectural and functional mistakes that will cause problems in the solution in the future.

There are some cases where the problem is worse—when the customer does not know the best solution for the problem. Some design techniques can help us with this, and we will introduce two of them here: Design Thinking and Design Sprint.

What you must understand is that these techniques can be a fantastic option to discover real requirements. As a software architect, you are committed to helping your team to use the correct tools at the correct time, and these tools may...