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Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development

Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development

By : Ralph Kuepper
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Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development

Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development

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By: Ralph Kuepper

Overview of this book

The capabilities of the Swift programming language are extended to server-side development using popular frameworks such as Vapor. This enables Swift programmers to implement the microservices approach to design scalable and easy-to-maintain architecture for iOS, macOS, iPadOS, and watchOS applications. This book is a complete guide to building microservices for iOS applications. You’ll start by examining Swift and Vapor as backend technologies and compare them to their alternatives. The book then covers the concept of microservices to help you get started with developing your first microservice. Throughout this book, you’ll work on a case study of writing an e-commerce backend as a microservice application. You’ll understand each microservice as it is broken down into details and written out as code throughout the book. You’ll also become familiar with various aspects of server-side development such as scalability, database options, and information flow for microservices that are unwrapped in the process. As you advance, you’ll get to grips with microservices testing and see how it is different from testing a monolith application. Along the way, you’ll explore tools such as Docker, Postman, and Amazon Web Services. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to build a ready-to-deploy application that can be used as a base for future applications.
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Running Swift via Docker

If we were to set up each of our servers manually, just like we did previously, we would never finish deploying. Fortunately, a handy tool called Docker not only automates this step, but it also allows for intelligent memory management for servers. Docker is a tool that containerizes applications and gives them isolated environments while also saving their state as we need it to run. This means that if we were to put the preceding steps in a Dockerfile, we could spin this file up whenever we needed it.

Luckily for us, Apple has already done that. We can access official Docker images for Swift that give us all we need. Docker is best-explained by looking at a Dockerfile, so let's take a look at the standard Vapor Dockerfile. A Dockerfile is a text file that contains all the instructions for Docker to create images that we can then run as containers...

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