Summary

In this chapter, we introduced Service Fabric and stateless and stateful microservices, and how these help in the development of bots using Microsoft Bot Framework. Also, we saw how to set up a development environment, the prerequisites for Service Fabric, and the tools needed for programming. This chapter is based on helping developers quickly and easily build, test, debug, deploy, and update their bot applications for single-box, test, and production deployments. It also shows how Service Fabric helps our bots to scale and be managed easily with a Service Fabric cluster.
In the coming chapters, we will see how bots can help us with the Internet of Things (IoT).