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Spring 5.0 Microservices - Second Edition
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Spring 5.0 Microservices - Second Edition

by Rajesh R V
July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
414 pages
11h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
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Characteristics of service in a microservice

Since microservices are more or less like a flavor of SOA, many of the service characteristics defined in the SOA are applicable to microservices as well.

The following are some of the characteristics of services that are applicable to microservices as well:

  • Service contract: Similar to SOA, microservices are described through well-defined service contracts. In the microservices world, JSON and REST are universally accepted for service communication. In case of JSON/REST, there are many techniques used to define service contracts. JSON Schema, WADL, Swagger, and RAML are a few examples.
  • Loose coupling: Microservices are independent and loosely coupled. In most cases, microservices accept an event ...
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ISBN: 9781787127685