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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 the basic principles of Vapor and how it operates. You have seen Vapor's advantages over the other frameworks and why it is a great choice for microservices. After installing Vapor, you have run your very first Vapor application and have seen the result.

Please spend some time playing with Vapor in order to familiarize yourself with the framework. This chapter cannot cover all that Vapor can offer for you, but it should be a good starting point. You can visit docs.vapor.codes for more information. This chapter is introducing the relevant parts of Vapor to you, which you will need to write microservices. You should familiarize yourself with the official Vapor documentation, though, as this chapter cannot cover everything and the framework is constantly evolving.

In the next chapter, we are planning our e-commerce example backend in...