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Hands-On Microservices with Kotlin

By : Juan Antonio Medina Iglesias
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Hands-On Microservices with Kotlin

By: Juan Antonio Medina Iglesias

Overview of this book

With Google's inclusion of first-class support for Kotlin in their Android ecosystem, Kotlin's future as a mainstream language is assured. Microservices help design scalable, easy-to-maintain web applications; Kotlin allows us to take advantage of modern idioms to simplify our development and create high-quality services. With 100% interoperability with the JVM, Kotlin makes working with existing Java code easier. Well-known Java systems such as Spring, Jackson, and Reactor have included Kotlin modules to exploit its language features. This book guides the reader in designing and implementing services, and producing production-ready, testable, lean code that's shorter and simpler than a traditional Java implementation. Reap the benefits of using the reactive paradigm and take advantage of non-blocking techniques to take your services to the next level in terms of industry standards. You will consume NoSQL databases reactively to allow you to create high-throughput microservices. Create cloud-native microservices that can run on a wide range of cloud providers, and monitor them. You will create Docker containers for your microservices and scale them. Finally, you will deploy your microservices in OpenShift Online.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Building our application

In order to have a microservice ready to be deployed, first we need to build it, and for that, we will use some of the knowledge that we have gained during the course of the chapters in this book. We will use Spring Boot to create a microservice that will have some tests using SpringBootTest and MockMVC, then, we will upload our microservice to GitHub so that it is available for the next sections on this chapter.

Creating an example microservice

Now that we have our tools ready, we should create our microservice, and we will use Spring Initializr as we have done in previous chapters.

We can start by visiting the URL: https://start.spring.io/:

Spring Initializr

We have chosen to create a Maven Project...