Building Applications with Spring 5 and Kotlin: Build scalable and reactive applications with Spring combined with the productivity of Kotlin

Learn to build a full fledged application in Spring and Kotlin taking a reactive, microservice based approach for scalability and robustness in the cloud

Key Features

• Build a full fledged application in Spring and Kotlin, throughout the course of the book
• Architect and design your application to take a reactive, microservice based approach for scalability and robustness in the cloud
• Integrate your application with a variety of Spring components like Spring Data, Spring Cloud and Spring Security

Book Description

Kotlin is a powerful language that has applications in a wide variety of fields. It is a concise, safe, interoperable and tool friendly language. Also, the Android team has announced first-class support for Kotlin which acts as an added boost to the language. With this book, you will get a deep understanding of this robust programming language and how it can make your life easier. This collection of projects will demonstrate the versatility of the language and enable you to build standalone applications on your own.

The book starts by unveiling the latest features of Kotlin and quickly walks you through the building blocks that form the basis of writing applications. You will build comprehensive applications in the book using the various features of Kotlin. Scale, performance, and high availability lie at the heart of the projects, and the lessons learned throughout this book will arm you with everything you need to build world-class solutions. You will learn to build a social media aggregator app that will help you efficiently track various feeds, develop a geospatial webservice with Kotlin and Spring, build onlines games like Pokemon, build responsive web applications with Kotlin, build a server side application with Kotlin. The book also covers the various libraries and frameworks in these projects.Through the course of building applications, this book will not only help you get to grips with the various features of Kotlin, but will also teach you how to design and prototype professional-grade applications with performance and security considerations.

What you will learn

• Learn basic and advanced concepts of Spring framework version 5 with use of powerful programming language as Kotlin is
• Start with most important Spring concept, dependency injection and make progress through the book towards complex configurations and Spring use cases
• Utilize Spring Data, Spring Cloud, Spring Security in your applications
• Create efficient reactive systems with Project Reactor
• Write unit tests for your Spring/Kotlin application
• Deploy application on cloud platform like AWS

Who This Book Is For

Developers comfortable using Spring, who have a basic knowledge of Kotlin and would now want to take their development skills to the next level and build enterprise-grade applications, will benefit from this book.

Milos Vasicc is a software engineer, author and open source enthusiasts. Milos holds a Bachelor degree in Programming of computer graphics and Master degree in the field of Android programming, both degrees he obtained at the Singidunum University. He published his first book Fundamental Kotlin in October 2016 and thus achieved his dream of becoming an author. He's currently employed at the company Robert Bosch where he's developing SDKs for auto industry. When he is not writing a new book Milos can be found in his RV high in the mountains working on his open source projects.