Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development

Starting a new service

In this section, we are going to set everything up for our first microservice. A microservice is essentially just like every other backend application; that is, it is only configured and set up to operate in a network of services. There are a couple of implications and best practices that make networking much more manageable. Because the service is not addressing humans, we can be a lot more mechanical in the way we design it.

We will look into the following topics:

• Version control: Keeping an excellent track of what we changed when
• Using the API template: An easy template to use for most services.
• Dependency management: Including the needed packages
• Configuration: Setting it up correctly
• Routes: How to expose the ...