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Getting Started: Messaging in .NET with MassTransit

Learn how to implement asynchronous messaging in .NET with MassTransit. This covers key concepts like queues, topics, message brokers, and patterns like Saga and Outbox, using real-world examples.

Irina Scurtu

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5h 7m99 lessons10 chaptersGetting Started

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About this course

Asynchronous messaging is a must for any application, whether monolithic or part of a microservices architecture. Messaging allows applications to offload work so it can be done later while providing the best customer experience for the user. It also allows us to load-level our systems and prevent spikes in traffic from taking down our system. Queues, as well as Topics with a Pub/Sub model, are a staple of any good system and a required skill for any company. In this course, Irina Scurtu will assume zero messaging knowledge, and she will teach you everything you need to know to understand asynchronous messaging in .NET and explain how you can simplify the process of integrating it into your applications by using the very popular library, MassTransit.

curriculum

Course curriculum

5h 7m10 sections

Welcome

01:59Free preview

What will you learn in this course?

03:04Free preview

Who is the course for and prerequisites

02:05Free preview

What is the Problem with HTTP APIs?

05:20

Things to consider when using asyncronous messaging

03:43

Why asyncronous messaging?

06:33

What is a message

02:16

Delivery modes/guarantees

03:13

Topologies

01:57

Endpoints

02:10

Installing RabbitMQ

01:06

MassTransit overview

01:37

Why use MassTransit

02:45

Downloading the solution

00:08

Tech Check

01:02

Exploring the solution

03:35

Installing MassTransit Packages

00:39

Configuring the bus

02:32

Summary

00:56

Publishing messages

06:51

Creating a consumer

00:48

What is a consumer

03:13

Ways of registering consumers

02:56

Consuming messages

01:07

Controlling the naming

08:03

Configuring endpoints.ReceiveEndpoint

03:47

Tuning a message consumer/ConsumerDefinitions

05:13

Adding headers to messages

04:58

Message expiration

03:41

Best practices around consumers

01:02

Installing MassTransit templates

02:11

Tweaking the worker project

02:33

Competing consumers

03:31

Preparing the OrderCreation project

03:16

Publishing events from consumers

03:58

Sending Commands

07:24

Adding headers to commands

01:37

Request/Response

00:46

Implementing Request/Response

09:32

Handling multiple reponse types

04:07

Determining response types

04:09

Summary

01:42

Intro to dealing with errors

00:07

Skipped queues

00:48

Dealing with skipped queues

02:41

Error queues

03:32

Configuring Error queue names

04:32

Faults

00:56

Listening to specific faults

04:30

Listening to all faults

04:46

Turning off fault events

02:56

Summary

01:03

How the retry policies work

02:32

Configuring policies

02:01

Verifying retry attempts

01:59

Policy types

02:10

Revisiting the retry flow with custom exceptions

03:45

Using Exception filters

03:59

What is a redelivery

00:56

Enabling Redelivery Plugin in RabbitMQ

01:42

Delayed redeliveries

06:03

Replaying a message

01:22

Enabling the shovel plugin in RabbitMQ

00:49

Replaying all messages

02:06

Summary

00:55

Pipes & Filters

02:38

Using Send Filters

06:45

Using Publish Filters

04:11

Using Consume Filters

03:15

Specifying filters with custom types

02:18

Filters not linked to a type

02:56

Strongly-typed filters & ways of registration

03:21

Summary

00:21

What is the outbox pattern

03:16

Revisiting the project structure

01:31

Adding the outbox tables

03:18

Enabling & configuring the bus outbox

08:54

Consumer outbox

03:43

Changing the Notification project

01:40

Bus outbox vs consumer outbox

01:07

Outbox-Inbox recap

02:38

Summary

00:54

What is the Saga pattern

01:28

What is a State machine

01:09

Real life analogy

00:53

Preparing the Saga database entities

05:38

Creating and configuring the saga component

03:05

Implementing the Events and States

04:49

Implementing state transitions

09:11

Registering the Saga

01:27

Running the Saga

01:55

Implementing OrderCancellation

08:21

Cancelling in a Paid state

10:53

Ignoring state transitions errors

01:52

Finalizing a saga

02:29

Scheduling

07:50

SagaDefinitions

01:21

Summary

00:09

Conclusion

02:18

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What learners are saying about this course

What I liked

the course is straight forward, easy to understand and with hands-on

What I learned

I got good understanding of Saga implementation

What I liked

Understanding and implementing Saga and StateMachines

What I learned

Moving to a totally async environment for AI implementations

instructors

Meet your instructor

Irina Scurtu

Irina Scurtu

Irina Scurtu (Dominte) is a software architect, international speaker, Microsoft MVP for developer technologies, and Microsoft certified trainer (MCT) with a wealth of experience. Having taught classes, workshops, and presentations for over 2,000 hours, Irina is passionate about coding and keeping abreast of the latest trends and best practices in software architecture and .NET. Twice a year, for five months each time, Irina teaches .NET and C# to aspiring software developers or people interested in software development or seeking to expand their knowledge. She is an active member of the community and has founded the DotNet Iasi User Group and the dotnetdays.ro conference, where she connects with like-minded developers who are eager to share their expertise and insights. Irina is also a prolific blogger, and her website, https://irina.codes, features a wealth of articles on various coding topics.

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