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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)

Gateway

A Cloud Gateway allows us to simplify how we can expose a microservice to be used by applications or to other microservices, which simplifies how we can perform load balancing between the instances and expose a clear mechanism to access them. Spring Cloud allows us to use Netflix Zuul to easily create a Gateway for our cloud microservices where we can define simple routes for accessing them.

Additionally, Zuul will use NetFlix Ribbon to perform load balancing and Hystrix to create circuit breakers, giving our Gateway a cloud-oriented architecture for our microservices.

In this section, we will create our Gateway and connect it to our microservices.

Creating a Gateway

We can use Spring Initializr to create our Discovery...