Spring Security - Third Edition

Microservices

A microservice architecture is a collection of small discrete services where each service implements a specific business capability. These services run their own process and communicate via an HTTP API usually using a RESTful service approach. These services are created to serve only one specific business function, such as user management, administrative roles, an e-commerce cart, a search engine, social media integration, and many others. Take a look at the following diagram which depicts the microservices architecture:

Each service can be deployed, upgraded, scaled, restarted, and removed independently of other services in ...