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Mastering ServiceStack

Utilize ServiceStack as the rock solid foundation of your distributed system

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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|Oct 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    Mastering ServiceStack covers real-life problems that occur over the lifetime of a distributed system and how to solve them by deeply understanding the tools of ServiceStack. Distributed systems is the enterprise solution that provide flexibility, reliability, scaling, and performance. ServiceStack is an outstanding tool belt to create such a system in a frictionless manner, especially sophisticated designed and fun to use.
    The book starts with an introduction covering the essentials, but assumes you are just refreshing, are a very fast learner, or are an expert in building web services. Then, the book explains ServiceStack's data transfer object patterns and teach you how it differs from other methods of building web services with different protocols, such as SOAP and SOA. It also introduces more low-level details such as how to extend the User Auth, message queues and concepts on how the technology works.
    By the end of this book, you will understand the concepts, framework, issues, and resolutions related to ServiceStack.

    What you will learn

    • Design a prudent and resilient API, following the RESTful design
    • Understand the internal processing chain and utilize the provided hooks
    • Incorporate ServiceStack as a full service provider to your existing distributed system
    • Leverage the power of asynchronous processing and add message queues to your architecture
    • Analyze and tune the performance of your service

    Who this book is for

    Mastering ServiceStack is targeted at developers who have already implemented web services with ASMX, WCF, or ServiceStack and want to gain more insight into the possibilities ServiceStack has to offer to build distributed systems of all scales.

    Table of Contents

    1. Distributed systems and how ServiceStack jumps in
    2. ServiceStack as your unique point of access
    3. Asynchronous communication between components
    4. Analysis and tuning a distributed system
    5. Documentation and Versioning
    6. Exttending ServiceStack
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78398-659-0
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 216
    Related subjects:
    Computer sciences,
    Computer sciences, other

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