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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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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

Upgrading from monolith to microservices

Upgrading from a monolithic architecture to microservices is essentially to continually replace parts of the old application with new microservices. While this section talks about upgrading a monolith, it can also be taken as a planning step for an entirely new application. You will see how to conceptually upgrade a monolith to microservices; there is no code mentioned at this point because you will see this in much more depth later in this book. You should, however, see the concept underneath after reading this section.

They may not fit your specific application but are generally widespread among monolithic applications. This approach is referred to as Model-View-Controller (MVC). The components of this approach are defined as follows:

  • A Model represents an instance of a data type, for example, User, Product, and Order.
  • A Controller represents...
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