Design patterns for microservices

This topic will cover using design patterns to mitigate challenges with microservices, as described in the preceding section. Later in this book, we will see how we can implement these design patterns using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Kubernetes.

The concept of design patterns is actually quite old; it was invented by Christopher Alexander back in 1977. In essence, a design pattern is about describing a reusable solution to a problem when given a specific context.  

The design patterns we will cover are as follows: 

• Service discovery
• Edge server
• Reactive microservices
• Central configuration
• Centralized log analysis
• Distributed tracing
• Circuit Breaker
• Control loop
• Centralized monitoring and alarms

This list is not intended to be comprehensive; instead, it's a minimal list of design patterns that are required...