September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
668 pages
15h 59m
English
Content preview from Hands-On Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
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Summary
In this introductory chapter, I described my own way into microservices and delved into a bit of their history. We defined what a microservice is, that is, a kind of autonomous distributed component with some specific requirements. We also went through the good and challenging aspects of a microservice-based architecture.
To handle these challenges, we defined a set of design patterns and briefly mapped the capabilities of open source products such as Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Kubernetes to them.
You're eager to develop your first microservice now, right? In the next chapter, we will be introduced to Spring Boot and complementary open source tools that we will use to develop our first microservices