Juan Antonio Medina Iglesias - Hands-On Microservices with Kotlin

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Juan Antonio Medina Iglesias began his career 20 years ago as an indie game developer and worked abroad four countries since then, from embedded software to enterprise applications. He has a lifetime's dedication to software craftsmanship.

Since 2006, he works at Santander Technology with a talented group of professionals who performed one of the biggest transformations in the banking industry.

Nowadays, he works as a Senior Engineer in the Digital Transformation team within Santander Technology UK.

Neil Cannon has been developing Android applications since 2010, following many years working on server-side Java. After trying the Kotlin 1.0 beta, he moved away from Java and has written as little Java as possible since.

Vctor Herraiz Posada is a senior software engineer with more than 15 years of experience in designing and developing complex distributed systems for companies such as Santander Group and Mapfre.

He is passionate about teaching and training. He has given courses and talks on accessibility, quality control, design patterns, and programming languages. He loves physics, metal music, playing guitar, video games and old sci-fi movies, books, and comics.

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With Google's announcement of introducing first-class support for Kotlin in their Android ecosystem, Kotlin is realized as a mainstream language.

Microservices helps with designing scalable, easy-to-maintain web applications, and Kotlin allows us to take advantage of modern idioms to simplify our development and create high-quality services.

With 100% of interoperability with the JVM, Kotlin makes it easy to work with the existing Java code.

Popular Java frameworks, such as Spring, Jackson, and Reactor, have included Kotlin modules to take advantage of language features such as null safety and type-safe declarative builders.

This book will guide the reader through designing and implementing services to having the production-ready testable code, creating easy-to-maintain and lean code that will be shorter and simpler than a traditional Java implementation.

We will discover the benefits of using the reactive paradigm in order to take advantage of non-blocking techniques and take our services to the next level of industry standards.

During the journey, we'll consume NoSQL databases reactively in order to create high- throughput microservices.

In this book, we will demonstrate how we can create Cloud-Native microservices that can run in a wide range of cloud providers, and how we can monitor them.