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Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core

You're reading from   Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core Developing Distributed Web Services to improve scalability with .NET Core 2.0 and ASP.NET Core 2.0

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788291576
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gaurav Aroraa Gaurav Aroraa
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Sharbani Bhattacharya Sharbani Bhattacharya
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Preface 1. Getting Started 2. Building the Initial Framework – Laying the Foundation of the Application FREE CHAPTER 3. User Registration and Administration 4. Item Catalogue, Cart, and Checkout 5. Integrating External Components and Handling 6. Testing RESTful Web Services 7. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment 8. Securing RESTful Web Services 9. Scaling RESTful Services (Performance of Web Services) 10. Building a Web Client (Consuming Web Services) 11. Introduction to Microservices 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Scaling

Scaling is one of the biggest challenges that any business faces when trying to cater to an increased user base.

Scalability is simply the capability of a system/program to handle a growing work. In other words, scalability is the ability of the system/program to scale.

The scalability of a system is its ability to handle an increasing/increased load of work. There are two main strategies or types of scalability in which we can scale our application.

Vertical scaling

In vertical scaling, we analyze our existing application to find out the parts of the modules that are causing the application to slow down due to higher execution time. Making the code more efficient could be one strategy, so less memory is consumed....

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