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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)

Product Management Service

Alright—you have already written your first microservice in Chapter 7, Writing the User Service, and you have learned how to test microservices in Chapter 8, Testing Microservices. Now, we are going to write our next microservice: Product Management Service (PMS)!

The PMS will be an important service in our setup, but it will be very different from the User Management Service (UMS). In this chapter, you are going to learn how to write microservices that verify authentification and provide some limited admin management functions. This is the second microservice in our example shop application and will bring us closer to having the application run fully. It will also show you another way microservices can interact with each other since this service is less complex than the UMS. By the end of this chapter, you will have built a second microservice...