Hands-On Microservices with C#: Designing a real-world, enterprise-grade microservice ecosystem with the efficiency of C# 7

Building microservices is not just a matter of splitting an application into smaller parts; the services also need to communicate, respond to events, and work together reliably. In Hands-On Microservices with C#, Matt R. Cole develops those ideas through a series of practical examples, showing how a message-based ecosystem can take shape in C#.

The book moves from architectural foundations to individual services, giving readers a view of both the shared messaging patterns and the different problems those services can address.

Start with the messages that connect the system

The opening chapters introduce microservice architecture, its advantages and trade-offs, and the role of messaging. Cole explores queues, subscriptions, message publishing, versioning, and exchanges—the building blocks that let independently designed services communicate asynchronously.

Follow the architecture into working services

Examples take the discussion into implementation, including a base microservice and interface, memory management, deployment monitoring, scheduling, email, and file monitoring. Later chapters explore machine learning and quantitative financial services, with examples involving bonds and credit default swaps, before turning to a microservice manager and topics such as leader election.

This progression makes the book useful for seeing how a common communication model can support services with very different jobs. The examples provide concrete material to study as you consider the boundaries, messages, and operational concerns of a C# microservice system.

For C# developers working with service architecture

Written for developers and software architects who already have a basic understanding application development, the book is suited to readers who want to explore practical, message-based microservices rather than architecture in the abstract. It offers a hands-on route through C# examples, with a broad set of service scenarios to examine and adapt to their own design questions.