.NET Microservices – Full Course for Beginners

💻Get the source code: 🔥Get the Complete Program (updated for .NET 7): Learn the foundational elements of a microservices architecture in this beginner level course where you will incrementally build a real microservices based application with the .NET platform and C#, step by step. ⭐️ Course Contents ⭐️ 00:00 Module 1: Welcome to the course! 04:38 Development environment setup 12:25 Customizing VS Code for C# Development 17:23 What’s wrong with the monolith? 25:18 What are microservices? 35:04 Module 2: Your first microservice 35:39 Creating a microservice via the .NET CLI 45:32 Introduction to the REST API and DTOs 47:21 Adding the DTOs 50:38 Adding the REST API operations 01:15:43 Handling invalid inputs 01:26:50 Module 3: Adding database storage 01:27:37 Introduction to the repository pattern and MongoDB 01:29:59 Implementing a MongoDB repository 01:44:04 Using the repository in the controller 01:54:57 Introduction to Docker 01:56:43 Trying out the REST API with a MongoDB container 02:09:36 Introduction to Dependency Injection and Configuration 02:14:33 Implementing dependency injection and configuration 02:31:26 Module 4: Preparing for the next microservice 02:32:23 Using Postman 02:47:47 Reusing common code via NuGet 02:51:58 Refactoring into a generic MongoDB repository 03:02:48 Refactoring MongoDB registration into extension methods 03:09:53 Moving generic code into a reusable NuGet package 03:25:50 Introduction to Docker Compose 03:28:10 Moving MongoDB to docker compose 03:39:04 Module 5: Synchronous inter-service communication 03:39:58 Creating the Inventory microservice 04:06:33 Introduction to synchronous communication 04:10:15 Implementing synchronous communication via IHttpClientFactory 04:22:01 Understanding timeouts and retries with exponential backoff 04:25:31 Implementing a timeout policy via Polly 04:35:27 Implementing retries with exponential backoff 04:46:39 Understanding the circuit breaker pattern 04:49:45 Implementing the circuit breaker pattern 04:56:22 Module 6: Asynchronous inter-service communication 04:57:17 Introduction to asynchronous communication 05:07:09 Defining the message contracts 05:10:55 Publishing messages via MassTransit 05:22:07 Standing up a RabbitMQ docker container 05:29:50 Refactoring MassTransit configuration into the reusable NuGet package 05:40:57 Consuming messages for eventual data consistency 06:01:40 Removing the inter-service synchronous communication 06:16:18 Module 7: Initial Frontend Integration 06:16:48 Installing 06:19:59 Getting started with the frontend 06:34:41 Understanding CORS 06:40:36 Adding the CORS middleware 06:47:03 Exploring the frontend to microservices communication 07:05:04 Next Steps My courses: Patreon: LinkedIn: #dotnet #microservices