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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)

Fluent tests

When we do these tests, it is really important to do them in a way that everyone can understand, and have these tests that can be easily read is something really important for our applications. As we said earlier, we can even use our Ubiquitous language in our tests so that anyone in the team can understand them, including our domain experts. There is a Kotlin library named Kluent that allows us to do fluent tests, taking advantage of some of the benefits of the Kotlin programming language. More details are available at: https://markusamshove.github.io/Kluent/.

Adding Kluent

First, we will add Kluent as a dependency in our Maven POM. Go to the Project window and open pom.xml in the root folder of the project....