In this chapter, we first took a theoretical dive, and from concepts, we moved towards the more technical aspects of microservices-based architecture. You learned the core microservices principles, its differences from other standard architectures, and best practices. You also understood the core architectural elements as well as motivational practical manifestations. We noted some key differences between Azure Functions, service fabric, and container service. On the way, we touched base on some theory of DDD and reactive programming, and understood the core principles of serverless architecture as well.

Finally, we designed two example architectures--one based on microservices, and the other with serverless paradigms using Azure cloud offerings. We hope that you learned quite a lot in this chapter, and enjoyed it as well.

In the coming chapters we will learn various security aspects and features available from .NET Core environment after that we will look at DevOps processes with detailed information on containerization and will implement a simple multi-containers microservices application using the docker on the Azure container service.