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Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development

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Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development

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.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Testing multiple services together

Testing different microservices together can be quite challenging. Not only may they have to interact with each other but they also cause different changes (mostly in the databases) whenever you run a test that involves multiple services.

For efficiency purposes, you should have tested each service thoroughly before you test them together. Bugs and errors are caught significantly easier in isolation than in a multi-service setup. Trust me, it saves you hours and days of work.

Let's dive into it by looking at the following topics:

  • Configuration
  • What to test?
  • Testing locally
  • Testing in a development environment
  • Testing in production

Configuration

Having multiple services depend on each...