At a time when nearly every vertical, regardless of domain, seems to need software running in the cloud to make money, microservices provide the agility and drastically reduced time to market you require. This hands-on guide shows you how to create, test, compile, and deploy microservices, using the ASP.NET Core free and open-source framework. Along the way, youll pick up good, practical habits for building powerful and robust services.Building microservices isnt about learning a specific framework or programming language; its about building applications that thrive in elastically scaling environments that don't have host affinity, and that can start and stop at a moments notice. This practical book guides you through the process.Learn test-driven and API-first development conceptsCommunicate with other services by creating and consuming backing services such as databases and queuesBuild a microservice that depends on an external data sourceLearn about event sourcing, the event-centric approach to persistenceUse ASP.NET Core to build web applications designed to thrive in the cloudBuild a service that consumes, or is consumed by, other servicesCreate services and applications that accept external configurationExplore ways to secure ASP.NET Core microservices and applications