Software Architecture with Spring 5.0

Accelerating the development process

Let's start at the development stage. When you're working on old applications, you usually have to go through the following steps before writing the first line of code:

1. Install the required tools in your local machine.
2. Set up all the required dependencies.
3. Create one or more configuration files.
4. Discover all the missing parts that were not listed as part of the documentation.
5. Load the test data.
6. Run the application.

Now, let's say you're working as part of a team that owns many microservices that are written in different programming languages and that use different database technologies. Can you imagine the effort required before writing your first line of code?

Using microservices is supposed to be ...