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Hands-On Microservices with C#

You're reading from   Hands-On Microservices with C# Designing a real-world, enterprise-grade microservice ecosystem with the efficiency of C# 7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789533682
Length 254 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Matt Cole Matt Cole
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Let's Talk Microservices, Messages, and Tools FREE CHAPTER 2. ReflectInsight – Microservice Logging Redefined 3. Creating a Base Microservice and Interface 4. Designing a Memory Management Microservice 5. Designing a Deployment Monitor Microservice 6. Designing a Scheduling Microservice 7. Designing an Email Microservice 8. Designing a File Monitoring Microservice 9. Creating a Machine Learning Microservice 10. Creating a Quantitative Financial Microservice 11. Trello Microservice – Board Status Updating 12. Microservice Manager – The Nexus 13. Creating a Blockchain Bitcoin Microservice 14. Adding Speech and Search to Your Microservice 15. Best Practices

Blockchain

According to Don and Alex Tapscott, authors of Blockchain Revolution (2016),

"The blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions but virtually everything of value."

The blockchain is the database of all transactions that have happened since the beginning of time. In the blockchain world, this is known as the genesis block. The blockchain is duplicated all over the world. Once a transaction of something appears in the blockchain, it is very easy to prove it exists.

In this world, miners are entities whose only goal in life is to insert a transaction into the blockchain. To be efficient, miners try to update batches of transactions into a block. Other nodes confirm that this new block obeys all rules set forth in the Bitcoin protocol. Once a miner inserts an update into...

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