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Mastering Spring Cloud
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Mastering Spring Cloud

by Piotr Mińkowski
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
432 pages
10h 38m
English
Packt Publishing
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Synchronous communication with Spring Cloud

Spring Cloud provides a set of components to help you in implementing communication between microservices. The first of them is RestTemplate, which is always used for consuming RESTful web services by a client. It is included in a Spring Web project. To use it effectively in a microservices environment, it should be annotated with the @LoadBalanced qualifier. Thanks to that, it will be automatically configured to use Netflix Ribbon and it will be able to take an advantage of service discovery by using service names instead of IP addresses. Ribbon is a client-side load balancer, which provides a simple interface allowing control over the behavior of HTTP and TCP clients. It can be easily integrated ...

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