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Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789530889
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ralph Kuepper Ralph Kuepper
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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

Simplicity for maintainability and stability

Simplicity is great; every developer who has seen complex code knows this. Swift was designed to be simple and we need to take this further and also keep our microservices simple. What do we mean by maintainability and stability? For code to be maintainable and stable, it needs to be the following:

  • Easily readable: The easier code is to read, the faster someone (including you) can read it later.
  • Well structured: Includes the structure of files and the code within those files.
  • As simple as possible and reasonable: Easy code is better than complicated code.

Let's look at the following topics:

  • Simplicity through libraries: Using third-party libraries is a great way to reduce the complexity of your code.
  • Using straightforward names makes it intuitive and easy to understand the intent.
  • Separation of concerns: Keep things separated...
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