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Hands-On Microservices with  Kotlin

You're reading from   Hands-On Microservices with Kotlin Build reactive and cloud-native microservices with Kotlin using Spring 5 and Spring Boot 2.0

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788471459
Length 414 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Juan Antonio Medina Iglesias Juan Antonio Medina Iglesias
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Preface 1. Understanding Microservices 2. Getting Started with Spring Boot 2.0 FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating RESTful Services 4. Creating Reactive Microservices 5. Reactive Spring Data 6. Creating Cloud-Native Microservices 7. Creating Dockers 8. Scaling Microservices 9. Testing Spring Microservices 10. Monitoring Microservices 11. Deploying Microservices 12. Best Practices 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

NoSQL databases

You may be familiar with SQL databases since they are probably the most common database model used on millions of applications. But NoSQL databases are widely used in the industry due to their capabilities, and they can be easily integrated into our microservices. In this section, we will learn about them and how we can use MongoDB as a repository for the data required by our microservices.

What is a SQL database?

To understand what a NoSQL database is, we first need to understand what a SQL database is. In a SQL database, the data is organized in a tabular manner. We have different tables representing collections on our database, and each of these tables contain a set of columns that define them; those columns...

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