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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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Handling shared reference data

When breaking large applications, one of the common issues that we see is the management of master data or reference data. Reference data is more like shared data required between different microservices. City master, country master, and more will be used in many services, such as flight schedules, reservations, and so on.

There are a few ways we can solve this. For instance, in the case of relatively static, never changing data, every service can hard code this data within all the microservices themselves.

Another approach, as shown in the following diagram, is to build it as another microservice:

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