Chapter 2. A basic shopping cart microservice

This chapter covers

  • A nearly complete implementation of the Shopping Cart microservice
  • Creating HTTP endpoints with Nancy
  • Implementing a request from one microservice to another
  • Implementing a simple event feed for a microservice with Nancy

In chapter 1, we looked at how microservices work and how they can be characterized. You also set up a simple technology stack—C#/Nancy/OWIN—that lets you create microservices easily, and you saw a basic Shopping Cart microservice. In this chapter, you’ll implement four main parts of this microservice using Nancy:

  • A basic HTTP-based API allowing clients to retrieve a cart, delete it, and add items to it. Each of these methods will be visible as an HTTP ...

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