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Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development
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Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development

by Ralph Kuepper
March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
392 pages
10h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Introduction to Microservices

In this first chapter, you will get to know the basics of microservices. They have been an upcoming trend over the last few years and gained popularity particularly amongst start-ups and projects that are built to grow. Their appeal is that they are designed to be scalable but also offer great flexibility to the programmer. By the end of this book, you will be capable of writing your own microservices for apps and frontends using the Swift framework, Vapor. This chapter will give you an overview of what microservices are and how they are useful in web development.

Microservices are small, individual services that form an application by working together. In contrast to that, monoliths are applications that are ...

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