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You're reading from Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development Build microservices for mobile and web applications using Swift 5 and Vapor 4

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789530889

Length 392 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

Vapor

Concepts

Microservices

Author (1):

Ralph Kuepper

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Microservices

2. Understanding Server-Side Swift FREE CHAPTER

3. Getting Started with the Vapor Framework

4. Planning an Online Store Application

5. Creating Your First Microservice

6. Application Structure and Database Design

7. Writing the User Service

8. Testing Microservices

9. Product Management Service

10. Understanding Microservices Communication

11. Order Management Service

12. Best Practices

13. Hosting Microservices

14. Docker and the Cloud

15. Deploying Microservices in the Cloud

16. Scaling and Monitoring Microservices

17. Assessment Answers

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Technical requirements

This section covers what you will need to have running on your machine so that you can write the microservice for this chapter. The following components need to be installed:

Vapor 4
Swift 5
XCode 11+
Docker

macOS/Linux
AWS CLI
Google Cloud CLI
Docker Machine

We are also assuming that you have worked through the previous chapters and know how to write a Vapor microservice. All the code in this chapter will run alike under macOS and Linux.

For this chapter, you might want to register for a cloud provider of your choice. We will go through the most popular ones, but if you have an account already, then it will make it easier for you to follow along.

The GitHub repository for this chapter: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Swift-5-Microservices-Development/tree/master/Chapter 14.

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Authors (1)

Ralph Kuepper

Ralph Kuepper has worked in the web and software industry for over 15 years. He started his own company when he was 17 years old while still attending high school and college. Over the years, he has worked on projects for companies such as Adidas, KIA, and Honda. Coming from a traditional background of developing backends and websites using PHP and a monolithic approach, he has embraced and fine-tuned a Swift-based microservice approach for the last 4 years. His company, Skelpo Inc., has been actively involved in the development of the Vapor framework and has contributed a variety of open source microservices as well as related packages.

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