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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

In this chapter, you have learned how to set up AWS to run Vapor applications as a microservice architecture. We went through the process of setting up a load balancer and creating a cluster that can run the services.

We then went through the process of setting up an automatic CD, and we connected it to a GitHub repository, which means that pushing code to that repository will result in the automatic deployment of our service to AWS. In the end, we have a fully functional API up and running.

It is worth noting here that I have personally talked to Amazon engineers to confirm that Amazon itself uses this exact approach to deploy their microservices. While this approach might be a little complicated, it has been tested and proven to be reliable by companies such as Amazon and others.