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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)

Summary

You did it! The order management service is now ready and can run. You set up your template and configured it for this framework. Then you specified the routes. After that, you created the models we needed, and created the public controller for the routes. The internal controller came after that and we discussed how to implement routines.

Finally, we looked at how you could extend the service to include some taxes, add additional payment methods, and how adding coupons and refunds might work.

You saw that the OMS is different from the other two services, but learned how to connect it to the PMS and how to implement an asynchronous price check.

Now that we have essentially finished the backend services, we will look at the best practices for Swift microservice development in the next chapter.