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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)

Setting things up

Before we can deploy our application, we need to have the right access and tools ready for the task. In this section, we will create a GitHub account, that we can use as a repository for our microservices. For publishing our microservice code into GitHub, we will install and configure Git on our system. Then, we will create an OpenShift account that we will use to create a cloud application and link our OpenShift account to our GitHub account. Finally, we will install and configure the OpenShift command line tools to use in our examples.

Creating a GitHub account

In this chapter, we will use GitHub as the platform for storing our Git repositories. This will be required to deploy our microservices. If you...