You're reading from Tools and Skills for .NET 8 Get the career you want with good practices and patterns to design, debug, and test your solutions 

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837635207

Length 778 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

.NET

Concepts

Cloud Native

Author (1):

Mark J. Price

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Introducing Tools and Skills for .NET

2. Making the Most of the Tools in Your Code Editor FREE CHAPTER

3. Source Code Management Using Git

4. Debugging and Memory Troubleshooting

5. Logging, Tracing, and Metrics for Observability

6. Documenting Your Code, APIs, and Services

7. Observing and Modifying Code Execution Dynamically

8. Protecting Data and Apps Using Cryptography

9. Building an LLM-Based Chat Service

10. Dependency Injection, Containers, and Service Lifetime

11. Unit Testing and Mocking

12. Integration and Security Testing

13. Benchmarking Performance, Load, and Stress Testing

14. Functional and End-to-End Testing of Websites and Services

15. Containerization Using Docker

16. Cloud-Native Development Using .NET Aspire

17. Design Patterns and Principles

18. Software and Solution Architecture Foundations

19. Your Career, Teamwork, and Interviews

20. Epilogue

21. Index

Introducing OpenTelemetry

Telemetry is a combination of emitting logs and metrics from your code and then monitoring and analyzing the results. Unlike debugging, telemetry should not affect the operation and should have minimal impact on performance.

Logs are used to record a discreet operation and its success or failure. Metrics are used to record numbers, for example, completed requests, active requests, exceptions thrown, and so on.

OpenTelemetry (OTel) is an observability framework. It combines an API, an SDK, and tools that work together to generate and collect your solution’s telemetry data such as metrics and logs.

Since .NET provides its own logging API, you do not need to learn the OTel API. Instead, OTel integrates with ILogger. OTel requires the .NET 6 SDK or later.

The key benefits of using OTel with .NET projects are a common collection mechanism, common schemas and semantics for telemetry data, and an API for how third-party systems for analyzing...