5 Clients for consuming other microservices
This chapter covers
- MicroProfile REST Client specification
- Using type-safe interfaces to consume external microservices
- Customizing the content of headers on the request
Although many microservices require only a database or alternative data services, or process a request within their own process, sometimes a microservice needs to communicate with other microservices to fulfill a request. When shifting from monoliths to microservices, the tendency is toward smaller and leaner microservices, which necessitates more of them. More importantly, many of those smaller microservices will need to communicate with each other to complete a task previously achieved with a single method calling other services ...
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