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Mastering ASP.NET Web API

You're reading from Mastering ASP.NET Web API

Product type Book

Published in Aug 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786463951

Pages 330 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Mithun Pattankar

Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Microservices and Service-Oriented Architecture

2. Understanding HTTP and REST

3. Anatomy of ASP.NET Core Web API

4. Controllers, Actions, and Models

5. Implementing Routing

6. Middleware and Filters

7. Perform Unit and Integration Testing

8. Web API Security

9. Integration with Database

10. Error Handling, Tracing, and Logging

11. Optimization and Performance

12. Hosting and Deployment

13. Modern Web Frontends

Binary messages

Messages are processed faster as they are in a binary format compared to text. Since they are in the native binary format over the wire, they don't need to translate from text to binary by the TCP protocol.

Header compression

As the web has evolved, more data is sent from the server to the client and from the client to the server. HTTP 1.1 does not compress header fields. HTTP works over TCP and a request is sent over this connection, where the headers are large and contain redundant data. TCP works on Slow Start implemented by a network congestion-avoidance algorithm, which places packets over the network. If the headers are compressed, more packets can be sent over the wire. HTTP/2 fixed this problem...

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Authors (1)

Mithun Pattankar

Mithun Pattankar, who hails from Kalaburgi and lives in Bangalore, India, works with the leading MNC as a consultant. He has been developing .NET-based applications for over 12 years now. He has an industry-wide experience in building Desktop Apps (WPF), Web Apps (ASP.NET and client-side frameworks), and Hybrid Mobile apps (Ionic). He is involved in all aspects of application development, and mentors his junior team members. He has been actively working on building ASP.NET Web APIs for different frontends and conducts technical training as well. Mithun believes in eating sattvic food for healthy living and loves spending time doing socio-spiritual activities. He occasionally blogs on mithunvp.com and can be reached on Twitter at @mithunpattankar.

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