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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)

Understanding Spring Cloud

Modern microservices architecture focuses on deploying microservices into a cloud. This will enable a more optimal model for our products since we can grow or shrink the infrastructure as per our needs; however, the landscape of cloud providers has grown drastically, and many platforms need to tide our microservices to a particular vendor. Spring Cloud allows a vendor-agnostic approach that permits us to deploy our services in any cloud and take the full benefits of cloud computing, converting our microservices into Cloud-Native microservices.

In this section, we will be introduced to the main topics in this chapter.

What is a Cloud-Native application?

The cloud has very interesting capabilities...