In this chapter, we only took a brief look at SF and the microservices built with this Azure component. You have learned the basic concepts of SF, such as Reliable services and Reliable actors, and how to implement a communication protocol to exchange messages between services and clients. Remember that building an application based on microservices is not a trivial task and requires sticking to many important rules to avoid problems with dealing with state, monitoring, or scaling. Use SF as a framework for building distributed applications, which takes care of ensuring that they are reliable and highly available.
Last but not least: do not be discouraged if you have problems with SF or feel overwhelmed by its multiple options and configurations—this particular service has a pretty difficult learning curve, but after reading this whole chapter, you should be able...