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Hands-On Microservices with  Kotlin

You're reading from   Hands-On Microservices with Kotlin Build reactive and cloud-native microservices with Kotlin using Spring 5 and Spring Boot 2.0

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788471459
Length 414 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Juan Antonio Medina Iglesias Juan Antonio Medina Iglesias
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Preface 1. Understanding Microservices 2. Getting Started with Spring Boot 2.0 FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating RESTful Services 4. Creating Reactive Microservices 5. Reactive Spring Data 6. Creating Cloud-Native Microservices 7. Creating Dockers 8. Scaling Microservices 9. Testing Spring Microservices 10. Monitoring Microservices 11. Deploying Microservices 12. Best Practices 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

HTTP verbs and statuses

In RESTful APIs, we use standard HTTP verbs to indicate what we need to do with a particular resource. These verbs define what the client needs to do, but we need to answer in our microservice what response we give back.

For example, when a client asks for a specific customer using the URL http://localhost:8080/customer/1 with the HTTP verb GET, we can answer back with a status 200 OK, or with a 404 NOT FOUND, if we don't find the customer.

This two-way communication becomes part of a conversation between the client and the API and will form our ubiquitous language.

Standard HTTP verbs and statuses

In RESTful APIs, HTTP verbs and statuses are very flexible, and our application can decide how to...

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