Workshop: Designing APIs in .NET

Workshop description

Having an API ready for production should mean more than just deploying functionality. The API should be reliable and capable to effortlessly manage heavy loads without breaking a sweat, or loosing data.
Unfortunately there are certain architectural aspects that often get overlooked , and we start to address them when we learn the hard-way that bad things can happen in real-life environments.
The workshop guides you through the design process of different API architectures, starting with REST and gRPC, and progressing to asynchronous messaging, all with a cloud-native focus.
We'll emphasize crucial non-functional requirements (like reliability, scalability, and maintainability) essential for production systems. Not only that, but we will also see different mechanisms and patterns to address this.
You'll learn how to evolve your API architecture from a baseline implementation to one that incorporates highly desirable quality attributes.

Target audience

The workshop targets .NET Software developers that want to have a more architecture-focused approach.

C# developers that want to learn and understand communication patterns and best practices for APIs in distributed architectures.

Requirements

- Visual Studio, or an IDE you are familiar with

- .NET 9 installed

- Docker Desktop (no need for Kubernetes to be installed)

- GitHub

- RabbitMQ installed as standalone instance or in Docker

- SQL Server installed as standalone instance or in Docker