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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

Benefits of containers


We have already seen many benefits of containers over VMs. This section will explain the overall benefits of containers beyond the benefits of VMs.

Some of the benefits of containers are summarized as follows:

  • Self contained: Containers package essential application binaries and its dependencies together to make sure that there is no disparity between different environments, such as development, testing, or production. This promotes the concept of the Twelve-Factor applications and the concept of immutable containers. The Spring Boot microservices bundles all required application dependencies. Containers stretch this boundary further by embedding the JRE and other operating system-level libraries, configurations, and so on, if any.
  • Lightweight: Containers, in general, are smaller in size with a lighter footprint. The smallest container, Alpine, has a size of only less than 5 MB. The simplest Spring Boot microservices packaged with an Alpine container with Java 8 will...
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