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Spring 5.0 Microservices

You're reading from   Spring 5.0 Microservices Scalable systems with Reactive Streams and Spring Boot

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787127685
Length 414 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Rajesh R V Rajesh R V
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Preface 1. Demystifying Microservices FREE CHAPTER 2. Related Architecture Styles and Use Cases 3. Building Microservices with Spring Boot 4. Applying Microservices Concepts 5. Microservices Capability Model 6. Microservices Evolution – A Case Study 7. Scale Microservices with Spring Cloud Components 8. Logging and Monitoring Microservices 9. Containerizing Microservices with Docker 10. Scaling Dockerized Microservices with Mesos and Marathon 11. Microservice Development Life Cycle

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

SOA and microservices follow similar concepts. In the Chapter 1, Demystifying Microservices, we saw that microservices are evolved from SOA and many service characteristics are common in both approaches.

However, are they the same or are they different?

Since microservices are evolved from SOA, many characteristics of microservices are similar to SOA. Let's first examine the definition of SOA.

The Open Group definition of SOA (http://www.opengroup.org/soa/source-book/soa/p1.htm) is as follows:

SOA is an architectural style that supports service-orientation. Service-orientation is a way of thinking in terms of services and service-based development and the outcomes of services. 

A service:

  • Is a logical representation of a repeatable business activity that has a specified outcome (e.g., check customer credit, provide weather...
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