Chapter 6. Consuming microservices
This chapter covers
- How to consume a microservice
- Your choices when consuming a microservice
Consuming a microservice can mean many things to many people. Clients of a microservice could be scripts, web pages, other microservices, or pretty much anything that can make HTTP requests. If we covered them all, this chapter would be a whole book by itself!
Developing a microservice is interesting, but it doesn’t get you far until you introduce many microservices interacting with each other. To enable two services to interact with each other, you need a method by which one service can call another.
This chapter provides examples focused on one microservice consuming another with Java-based libraries, but the ...
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