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Cloud Native Applications with Ballerina

By : Dhanushka Madushan
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Cloud Native Applications with Ballerina

By: Dhanushka Madushan

Overview of this book

The Ballerina programming language was created by WSO2 for the modern needs of developers where cloud native development techniques have become ubiquitous. Ballerina simplifies how programmers develop and deploy cloud native distributed apps and microservices. Cloud Native Applications with Ballerina will guide you through Ballerina essentials, including variables, types, functions, flow control, security, and more. You'll explore networking as an in-built feature in Ballerina, which makes it a first-class language for distributed computing. With this app development book, you'll learn about different networking protocols as well as different architectural patterns that you can use to implement services on the cloud. As you advance, you'll explore multiple design patterns used in microservice architecture and use serverless in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure platforms. You will also get to grips with Docker, Kubernetes, and serverless platforms to simplify maintenance and the deployment process. Later, you'll focus on the Ballerina testing framework along with deployment tools and monitoring tools to build fully automated observable cloud applications. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to apply the Ballerina language for building scalable, resilient, secured, and easy-to-maintain cloud native Ballerina projects and applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics
4
Section 2: Building Microservices with Ballerina
8
Section 3: Moving on with Cloud Native

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "The sayHello resource will simply send a Hello, World! response back to the caller."

A block of code is set as follows:

import ballerina/http;
service /hello on new http:Listener(9090) { 
    resource function get sayHello(http:Caller caller,      http:Request req) returns error? { 
        check caller->respond("Hello, World!"); 
    }
}

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

[dependencies]
"dhanushka/invoice_util" = "0.1.0" 

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

kubectl apply –f target/kubernetes/code_to_cloud

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: "Then, you can log in to the Ballerina Central dashboard and see your package listed under the My Packages section."

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