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Shifting from traditional monolithic application architecture to micorservices can solve bunch of problems and issues monolith application application design approach introduces, but on the other hand it has it's own drawbacks, although number of drawbacks compared to number of problems it solves is a lot greater so it makes sense to take a path in process of moving from monolithic to micorservices. On of the steps to move to micorservices is to physically have your services running as individual processes...read more

While designing the REST API, quite often you may find yourself in a situation where the data can be provided from multiple sources, like route, query string or POST/PUT payload. While that might not be a big problem, it may force you to redesign your models and most likely you will end up with keeping your original DTOs but then designing a new model in your application services layer just to have all your data from different sources in one place when you are passing it to the service method. Resolving multiple sources custom binding ...read more

Contracts, models or DTOs, call them how ever you want, are your connection with the outside world from your REST API. Consumers of your API depend on them and they know what to expect or what your API endpoints expect in communication...read more