3 Building microservices with Spring Boot

This chapter covers

  • Understanding how microservices fit into a cloud architecture
  • Decomposing a business domain into a set of microservices
  • Understanding the perspectives for building microservice apps
  • Learning when not to use microservices
  • Implementing a microservice

To successfully design and build microservices, you need to approach them as if you’re a police detective interviewing witnesses to a crime. Although each witness sees the same event, their interpretation of the crime is shaped by their background, what’s important to them (for example, what motivates them), and what environmental pressures were brought to bear at the moment they witnessed the event. Witnesses each have their own perspective ...

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