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Learn Kotlin Programming

You're reading from   Learn Kotlin Programming A comprehensive guide to OOP, functions, concurrency, and coroutines in Kotlin 1.3

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789802351
Length 514 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Stefan Bocutiu Stefan Bocutiu
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Stephen Samuel Stephen Samuel
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Fundamental Concepts in Kotlin FREE CHAPTER
2. Getting Started with Kotlin 3. Kotlin Basics 4. Object-Oriented Programming in Kotlin 5. Section 2: Practical Concepts in Kotlin
6. Functions in Kotlin 7. Higher-Order Functions and Functional Programming 8. Properties 9. Null Safety, Reflection, and Annotations 10. Generics 11. Data Classes 12. Collections 13. Testing in Kotlin 14. Microservices with Kotlin 15. Section 3: Advanced Concepts in Kotlin
16. Concurrency 17. Coroutines 18. Application of Coroutines 19. Kotlin Serialization 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Drawbacks

No technology is perfect and using microservices has its own drawbacks. As the saying goes, there are no silver bullets.

We mentioned that microservices have their own database schema. Therefore, you can't have transactional updates for your domain models as you usually do when dealing with a monolithic application using one database. Your system will eventually end up being consistent, and that comes with its own bag of challenges.

Implementing a change that will end up touching more than one service has its own complexity. In a monolithic application, these things are quite straightforward. All you have to do is change the modules required and then deploy all of them in one go. But, for a distributed microservices system, where there are dependencies between services, you need to plan the upgrade. You will end up deploying the service that all the other ones depend...

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