Gabriel Baptista - Hands-On Software Architecture with C# 8 and .NET Core 3: Architecting software solutions using microservices, DevOps, and design patterns for Azure Cloud

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Gabriel Baptista is a software architect who technically leads a team in the most diverse projects for retail and industry, using a dozen varieties of Microsoft products. He has become a specialist in Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions since designing a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform in partnership with Microsoft. Besides all that, he is also a college computing professor who has published many papers and teaches different subjects related to software engineering, development, and architecture. He is also a speaker on Channel 9, one of the most prestigious and active community websites for the .NET stack. As well as that, he is a cofounder of a start-up for developing mobile applications, where Scrum, design thinking, and DevOps philosophy are the keys to delivering user needs.

Francesco Abbruzzese is the author of the book MVC Controls Toolkit. He has also contributed to the diffusion and evangelization of the Microsoft web stack since the first version of ASP.NET MVC through tutorials, articles, and tools. He writes about .NET and client-side technologies on his blog, Dot Net Programming, and in various online magazines. His company, Mvcct Team , implements and offers web applications, AI software, SAS products, tools, and services for web technologies associated with the Microsoft stack. He has moved from AI systems, where he implemented one of the first decision support systems for banks and financial institutions, to the video games arena, with top-10 titles such as Puma Street Soccer.

Efraim Kyriakidis has almost 20 years of experience in software development. He got his diploma as an electrical and software engineer from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. He has used .NET since its beginnings with version 1.0. In his career, he has mainly focused on Microsoft technologies. He is currently employed by Siemens AG in Germany as a senior software engineer.

Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati is a senior consultant and a senior analyst/developer who uses Microsoft technologies. He works for React Consulting. He is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for .NET, Microsoft Certified Application Developer for .NET, and Microsoft Certified Professional. He is also a prolific author and technical reviewer. Over the last 10 years, he's written articles for Italian and international magazines and has co-authored more than 10 books on a variety of computer topics.

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This book covers the most common design patterns and frameworks involved in software architecture. It discusses when and how to use each pattern by providing you with practical real-world scenarios. This book also presents techniques and processes such as DevOps, microservices, continuous integration, and cloud computing so that you can have a best-in-class software solution developed and delivered for your customers.

This book will help you to understand the product that your customer wants from you. It will guide you to deliver and solve the biggest problems you could face during development. It also covers the do's and don'ts that you need to follow when you manage your application in a cloud-based environment. You will learn about different architectural approaches, such as layered architectures, service-oriented architecture, microservices, and cloud architecture, and understand how to apply them to specific business requirements. Finally, you will deploy code in remote environments or on the cloud using Azure.