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Spring System Design in Practice
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Spring System Design in Practice

by Rodrigo Santiago
May 2025
Beginner to intermediate
456 pages
12h 12m
English
Packt Publishing
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7

Handling Data and Evolving Your Microservice

Welcome to Chapter 7! In this chapter, we will explore several topics regarding how to create the data persistence layer of your services. The topics here will be implemented using a SQL database, but we will dive into the architecture, which will help you understand how you should approach data modeling and persistence for any database type.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Data persistence in applications with Spring
  • Reactive versus non-reactive data handling
  • SQL versus NoSQL data storage
  • Microservice versus monolithic applications data design
  • Implementing a non-reactive, SQL database persistence layer
  • JpaRepository: your go-to SQL interface in Spring Data
  • Working with transactions ...
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