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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)

NoSQL databases

You may be familiar with SQL databases since they are probably the most common database model used on millions of applications. But NoSQL databases are widely used in the industry due to their capabilities, and they can be easily integrated into our microservices. In this section, we will learn about them and how we can use MongoDB as a repository for the data required by our microservices.

What is a SQL database?

To understand what a NoSQL database is, we first need to understand what a SQL database is. In a SQL database, the data is organized in a tabular manner. We have different tables representing collections on our database, and each of these tables contain a set of columns that define them; those columns...