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T. TelangBeginning Cloud Native Development with MicroProfile, Jakarta EE, and Kuberneteshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8832-0_4

4. Building RESTful Web Services

Tarun Telang1  
(1)
Hyderabad, India
 

In Chapter 2, you learned that microservices is an architectural style that structures an application as a collection of small, modular services. Microservices are independently deployable, scalable, and testable services that communicate with each other through well-defined APIs. This decoupling of services promotes development and deployment agility, as well as operational resilience.

RESTful API is an application programming interface (API) that conforms ...

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