Spring 5.0 By Example

Microservices and Spring Boot

The microservices architectural style, in general, is distributed, must be loosely coupled, and be well-defined. These characteristics must be followed when you want a microservices architecture.

Much of Spring Boot is aimed at developer productivity by making common concepts, such as RESTful HTTP and embedded web application runtimes, easy to wire up and use. In many respects, it also aims to serve as a micro-framework, by enabling developers to pick and choose the parts of the framework they need, without being overwhelmed by bulky or otherwise unnecessary runtime dependencies. This also enables Boot applications to be packaged into small units of deployment, and the framework is able to use build systems to ...