Samuele Resca - Hands-On RESTful Web Services with ASP.NET Core 3: Design production-ready, testable, and flexible RESTful APIs for web applications and microservices

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Samuele Resca is a software engineer working at Just Eat and primarily focused on web technologies. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in Visual Studio and development technologies. Samuele writes software engineering blog posts on Samuele Resca Blog and The DEV Community, and he contributes to open source projects. He is continuously learning and developing around the web ecosystem with a focus on the .NET Core ecosystem, cloud computing, serverless computing, and reactive programming. Samuele is from Italy, and he currently lives in London.

Ankit Sharma is a software engineer currently working as a senior technical member with ADP in Hyderabad, India. He has over 5 years of extensive experience in Microsoft technologies including C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, and UI technologies such as jQuery and Angular. He is a technical author and speaker and loves to contribute to the open source community. He writes articles for multiple platforms, which include c-sharpcorner, Dzone, Medium, and TechNet Wiki. For his dedicated contribution to the developer community, he has been recognized as a c-sharpcorner MVP, Dzone MVB, and Top contributor in Technology at Medium. He is also the author of the first ever book on Blazor Blazor Quick Start Guide. You can tweet him at @ankitsharma_007.

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.NET Core and ASP.NET Core are designed to evolve. They use abstract software development practices including open source, community-oriented approaches, as well as continuous improvement concepts. Today, ASP.NET Core is more flexible, fast, and powerful than ever. All the constraints developers had faced with .NET framework have been expelled and rewritten from scratch. Consequently, it is now possible to run .NET Core on every platform with no limitations. The framework is directly shipped with the .NET Core application. Therefore, it is possible to run it using a containerization approach. The documentation, the issues, and the roadmap are all available on GitHub. Microsoft is now following, by default, an open source way of working.

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