Chapter 18

1. What is gRPC?

gRPC is Google Remote Procedure Call, a cross-platform technology for implementing web services that are agnostic regarding the technology.

2. What is the purpose of URL rewriting?

Presenting user-friendly URLs that will be translated to something meaningful to the application.

3. What are background services useful for?

Running tasks on the background.

4. What is the purpose of areas?

Physically and conceptually separating parts of the application.

5. What are conventions good for?

Automatically enforcing defaults.

6. How can we execute code from a referenced assembly automatically?

By adding a [HostingStartup] attribute...