Ravindra Akella - Enterprise Application Development with C# 9 and .NET 5

Enhance your C# and .NET skills by mastering the process of developing professional-grade web applications

Ravindra Akella

Arun Kumar Tamirisa

Suneel Kumar Kunani

Bhupesh Guptha Muthiyalu

BIRMINGHAMMUMBAI

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To my mother, Mallika, and my father, Sastry, for their love and support.

Ravindra Akella

To my parents, Rajaiah and Mahalakshmi, for their love, endless support, and encouragement.

Suneel Kumar Kunani

Ravindra Akella works as a senior consultant at Microsoft and has more than 14 years of software development experience. Specializing in .NET and web-related technologies, his current role involves the end-to-end ownership of products right from architecture to delivery. He has led the software architecture design, development, and delivery of large, complex solutions using the Azure cloud and related technologies. He is a tech-savvy developer who is passionate about embracing new technologies. He has delivered talks and sessions on Azure and other technologies at international conferences. He has also authored books on .NET Core 3.0 before.

Authoring a book is a complex task, so I want to thank a few unsung heroes who helped make this happen. Firstly, thanks to my friend Rishabh Verma for involving me in this book. My sincere gratitude to my managers and colleagues who made me feel good about authoring this book. I am incredibly grateful to my parents, my wife, Srividya, and my son, Vaarush, for their continued support to complete this book. I am grateful to the incredible co-authors and technical reviewers for their support throughout the journey. Finally, I would like to thank Packt for giving me this opportunity.

Arun Kumar Tamirisa is a senior consultant currently working at Microsoft and has more than 15 years of IT experience in the design, development, and deployment of enterprise applications using the Microsoft .NET and Azure technology stacks. He has extensive experience in using popular client-side libraries such as Angular and Knockout.js and server-side technologies such as ASP.NET Core, web APIs, C#, and SQL Server. He is passionate about learning about, working on, and contributing toward developing solutions that solve complex problems.

My special thanks to the co-authors, the reviewers, and the Packt team for their tremendous support right from the beginning. I also wish to acknowledge the support of the extended team who have been working tirelessly in the background across time zones through the entire journey. Finally, I want to thank my wonderful family for their support and love.

Suneel Kumar Kunani is a passionate developer who strives to learn something new every day. With over 16 years of experience in .NET and Microsoft technologies, he works on architecting and building mission-critical, highly scalable, and secure solutions at Microsoft. He loves to teach and evangelize about the best practices in building distributed cloud solutions.

I would like to first and foremost thank my family for their support, patience, and encouragement throughout the long process of writing this book. I would like to extend my thanks to the Packt team, the co-authors, and the technical reviewers who made the journey of writing this book so pleasant. I am thankful to my managers and colleagues who supported and encouraged me in writing this book.

Bhupesh Guptha Muthiyalu is a Microsoft certified professional and works at Microsoft as a software engineering manager. He has 16+ years of software development experience on the .NET technology stack. His current role involves designing systems that are resilient to the iterations and changes required by the needs of enterprise businesses, validating architectural innovations, delivering solutions with high quality, managing the end-to-end ownership of products, and building diverse teams with capabilities to fulfill customer objectives. He is passionate about creating reusable components and identifying opportunities to make a product better.

I want to thank my parents, Mrs. Geetha Rani and Mr. Muthiyalu, my wife, Aparna, and my children, Tarak and Yashvak, for their continued support, patience, and encouragement throughout the long process of writing this book.

Abhijit Jana is a technology leader, strategist, solution architect, development consultant, and trusted technology advisor with 14 years of experience in the IT industry, with expertise in development, architecting, engineering, consulting, services delivery, leadership, and mentoring. He is currently associated with West Pharmaceutical Services as the director of software engineering and is responsible for building, managing, and leading the overall application development and software engineering team. Before West, he was associated with Microsoft and is a former MVP. There, he managed several complex projects and delivered solutions to enterprise customers worldwide.

He has been a speaker at various technology conferences and several IITs across India.

Priyanka Shah has more than 12 years of experience in designing and implementing complex applications across a diverse technology stack (C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java, Azure, AWS, Python, NLP conversational AI, Docker, microservices, SQL/NoSQL databases, ELK, and Azure AI). She also has full-stack development experience. She currently works as a solution architect for low-latency/high-availability applications at an investment house in Singapore. She is also the innovation lead for AI/ML and data science streams. She has been awarded Microsoft MVP for AI and is a regular public speaker and blogger on ML/AI topics. She is active in the tech community space, where she regularly organizes global conferences and features in many international conferences on the Microsoft cloud and Azure AI/ML.