# Design and Requirements

For this section, let's walkthrough start to finish how you might design and build your companies specific application needs. 

Here's the quick bullet list of every step of this process:

* Starting template
* Define Sources
* Requirements

## Starting with a template

* Does our system need to respond to API requests?
  * Is data pushed to your service with POST requests?
  * Does it need to respond to a `ping` request?
  * Does it provide on-demand data through restful calls?
* Do you plan on implementing administrative requests for your system? 
  * Do you want to be able to shutdown threads with an administrative login?
  * Do you want to check the status, runtime, or other system metrics?

If you answered "yes" to any of the above: lets start with this blueprint for built in hosting:

{% content-ref url="../blueprints/perigee-with-.net-hosting" %}
[perigee-with-.net-hosting](https://docs.perigee.software/blueprints/perigee-with-.net-hosting)
{% endcontent-ref %}

Otherwise we can create a standard .NET 6 project.