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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)

HTTP verbs and statuses

In RESTful APIs, we use standard HTTP verbs to indicate what we need to do with a particular resource. These verbs define what the client needs to do, but we need to answer in our microservice what response we give back.

For example, when a client asks for a specific customer using the URL http://localhost:8080/customer/1 with the HTTP verb GET, we can answer back with a status 200 OK, or with a 404 NOT FOUND, if we don't find the customer.

This two-way communication becomes part of a conversation between the client and the API and will form our ubiquitous language.

Standard HTTP verbs and statuses

In RESTful APIs, HTTP verbs and statuses are very flexible, and our application can decide how to...