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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)

Creating Cloud-Native Microservices

Creating microservices that are able to work natively in a cloud infrastructure is something that we should look forward to when we design a microservices architecture that follows our microservices principles. We reviewed the microservices principles and cloud architecture in Chapter 1, Understanding Microservices. You may need to look at that chapter to get a better understanding of some of the topics in this chapter.

In this chapter, we will learn about Cloud-Native microservices, and how Spring Cloud allows us to easily create them using a vendor-independent approach. To understand more about Spring Cloud, we will discuss how it works and how we can use it to create our microservices. Finally, we will cover the most important components that Spring Cloud provides.

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Understanding Spring Cloud
  • Configuration...