Chapter 11: Reactive Microservices with Vert.x
In the previous chapter, we familiarized ourselves with the Ktor framework. We created a web service that could store cats in its database.
In this chapter, we'll continue working on the example from the previous chapter, but this time using the Vert.x framework and Kotlin. Vert.x is a Reactive framework that is built on top of Reactive principles, which we discussed in Chapter 7, Controlling the Data Flow. We'll list some of the other benefits of the Vert.x framework in this chapter. You can always read more about Vert.x by going to the official website: https://vertx.io.
The microservice we'll develop in this chapter will provide an endpoint for health checks – the same as the one we created in Ktor – and will be able to delete and update the cats in our database.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Getting started with Vert.x
- Routing in Vert.x
- Verticles
- Handling...
