Hands-On Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

Challenges with autonomous software components

We also learned that decomposing the platform introduced a number of new challenges that we were not exposed (at least not to the same degree) when developing more traditional, monolithic applications:

• Adding new instances to a component required manually configuring load balancers and manually setting up new nodes. This work was both time-consuming and error-prone.
• The platform was initially prone to errors in the other systems it was communicating with. If a system stopped responding to requests that were sent from the platform in a timely fashion, the platform quickly ran out of crucial resources, for example, OS threads, specifically when exposed to a large number of concurrent requests. ...