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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)

Best Practices

This chapter will give an overview of what practices are helpful and recommended for microservices. So far, you have seen and learned how to write microservices in Swift with Vapor. In this chapter, we are going to check out some best practices that will help you write your own services.

We will look at how simplicity is the strength of microservices and how to achieve it. Then we will look at some Swift-specific perks that will go a long way for microservices. Often, code is either over-simplified or over-complicated; one section in this chapter aims to guide you through those decisions. Afterward, we will analyze how best to balance these two approaches with microservices. Finally, we will look into troubleshooting and debugging microservices. By the end of this chapter, you will be well equipped to write server-side Swift applications with efficient practices...