Gaurav Aroraa - Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core: Developing Distributed Web Services to improve scalability with .NET Core 2.0 and ASP.NET Core 2.0

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To my mother, Late Smt. Santosh, and to the memory of my father, Late Sh. Ramkrishan, for their sacrifices and for exemplifying the power of determination. To my youngest sister Late Baby Kanchan for her love and always being my lucky charm.

To my grandfather late Ganeswar Tripathy, for consistently motivating me.
To my father, Dr. Gobinda Chandra Dash, and mother, Mrs. Sasmita Tripathy, for whatever they have sacrificed in their life to build me.

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Gaurav Aroraa has an M.Phil in computer science. He is a Microsoft MVP, a lifetime member of Computer Society of India (CSI), an advisory member of IndiaMentor, certified as a scrum trainer/coach, XEN for ITIL-F, and APMG for PRINCE-F and PRINCE-P. Gaurav is an open source developer, a contributor to TechNet Wiki, and the founder of Ovatic Systems Private Limited. In 20+ years of his career, he has mentored thousands of students and industry professionals. You can tweet Gaurav on his Twitter handle @g_arora.

Tadit Dash is a senior software engineer and a hardcore tech community contributor. Due to his exceptional contribution to the technical community, Microsoft has awarded him with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional accolade since 2014. CodeProject has awarded him the CodeProject MVP accolade (the first from Odisha). For his constant mentorship, IndiaMentor featured him as a young mentor on their site. He was a featured speaker at DevTechDay Nepal and C# Corner Annual Conference, India. You can follow him on Twitter: @taditdash.

Hansamali Gamage is an experienced professional and Microsoft MVP in Visual Studio and Technologies from Sri Lanka. She possesses 5+ years of experience in .NET stack and Azure-related services. She is a frequent speaker at local and global tech events. She is a tech enthusiast and an award-winning writer on the Microsoft Tech Net forum. She works at TIQRI, previously known as Exilesoft, which is technology-focused software engineering company that has offices in Scandinavia, Asia, and Australia.

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This book will take the readers through the design of RESTful web services and leverages the ASP.NET Core Framework to implement these services. Starting from the basics of the philosophy behind REST, the readers will go through the steps of designing and implementing an enterprise-grade RESTful web service. Taking a practical approach, each chapter provides code samples that they can apply to your own circumstances. It brings forth the power of the latest .NET Core release, working with MVC. It then goes beyond the use of the framework to explore approaches to tackle resilience, security, and scalability concerns. The readers will learn techniques to deal with security in Web APIs and discover how to implement unit and integration test strategies. Finally, the book ends by walking you through building a .NET client for your RESTful web service, along with some scaling techniques.