Hands-On Software Architecture with C# 8 and .NET Core 3

Good software architecture starts well before the first service or database is built: it begins with understanding what users and businesses actually need. Hands-On Software Architecture with C# 8 Core 3 follows that path from requirements and design choices to cloud-based implementation, using Microsoft’ and Azure ecosystem throughout.

Gabriel Baptista and Francesco Abbruzzese connect architectural concepts to practical development concerns, including scalability, performance, microservices, data storage, and DevOps. The result is a technically focused guide for developers ready to think beyond individual features and consider how an application’s parts work together.

Start with requirements, not assumptions

The opening chapters examine how teams gather user needs, distinguish functional from nonfunctional requirements, and turn those findings into specifications. Agile development and design thinking appear alongside concerns such as security, robustness, usability, and performance. A continuing travel-club case study gives these decisions a concrete setting.

Make cloud and architecture choices with context

As the book moves into cloud-based solutions, it considers deployment models and Azure services before exploring layered systems and microservice architecture. The discussion includes Docker, service communication, orchestration options, and the circumstances in which microservices may—or may not—make sense. That context helps connect architectural patterns to the problems they are intended to address.

Follow the data through application

Practical coverage turns to Entity Framework Core, relational and NoSQL storage, Redis, and Azure Cosmos DB. These sections look at how application data is mapped, queried, updated, and deployed, while relating storage decisions to the needs of a cloud-hosted system.

From development workflow to working systems

Azure DevOps, testing, automation, and design patterns broaden the book’s focus beyond application structure alone. Taken together, the material offers a view of architecture that includes the tools and processes teams use to build, validate, and maintain software.

Who will find it useful?

This book is intended for engineers and experienced developers working with C#, particularly those aiming to take on software architecture responsibilities or design enterprise applications. Its examples and technology choices are rooted in the C# 8,.NET Core 3, and Azure landscape of its 2019 publication.