Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

How to do it...

1. To get started with Hystrix we need to add the spring-cloud-starter-hystrix library to our project. Let's modify our build.gradle file located in the root of our project with the following content:

dependencies { 
    ... 
    compile("org.springframework.cloud:     spring-cloud-starter-consul-all") 
    compile("org.springframework.cloud:     spring-cloud-starter-openfeign") 
    compile("org.springframework.cloud:     spring-cloud-starter-eureka-client") 
    compile("org.springframework.cloud:     spring-cloud-starter-netflix-hystrix") 
    runtime("com.h2database:h2") 
    runtime("mysql:mysql-connector-java") 
    ... 
} 

2. After adding the Hystrix dependency, we need to enable Hystrix for our application. Similar to how we enabled service discovery, we will do that ...