Skip to Content
Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development
book

Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development

by Ralph Kuepper
March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
392 pages
10h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development

What is a microservice?

Let's quickly define what we mean when we use the term microservice.

As the word already gives away, microservice consists of micro and service. Micro is smaller than small. A microservice by definition should be as small as possible. The other word, service, refers to the function of a microservice: it should do something for us. In this book—and in generalwe call them microservices, the plural form of microservice. We do that because a microservice usually operates together with other microservices. A microservice application consists of multiple microservices working together and alongside each other.

Almost all major players, such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook, started out as so-called monolithic applications. ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Beginning iPhone Development with SwiftUI: Exploring the iOS SDK

Beginning iPhone Development with SwiftUI: Exploring the iOS SDK

Wally Wang

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781789530889