Consolidating Services With Middleware

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Argues that HTTP microservices benefit from reusable middleware and shows concrete code: builds a timing middleware, a correlation ID middleware that reads or emits a header and wires it into logging and outgoing HTTP clients, and a monitor endpoint short-circuiting middleware that returns version/health. Uses ASP.NET Core pipeline (Kestrel) plus class-vs-lambda patterns, packages middleware as NuGet, and demonstrates interoperability with LibOwin/OWIN. Explains how these components make logging, monitoring and auth uniform and easily testable across many services.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:12Why Middleware
3. 2:34Microservice Systems
4. 3:02Why Microservices
5. 6:46Examples
6. 15:10Microservices
7. 19:27Web Server
8. 20:35Pipes and Filters
9. 24:28Pipelines
10. 27:19Pipeline Example
11. 31:10Empty Web Application
12. 31:38Running Empty Web Application
13. 32:57Creating Middleware
14. 41:02Reusing Middleware
15. 42:02Logging Contexts
16. 46:43Monitoring Endpoints
17. 49:40Sharing Across Libraries

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