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Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

You're reading from   Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud Build resilient and scalable microservices using Spring Cloud, Istio, and Kubernetes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801072977
Length 774 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Introduction to Spring Boot

In this chapter, we will be introduced to how to build a set of cooperating microservices using Spring Boot, focusing on how to develop functionality that delivers business value. The challenges with microservices that we pointed out in the previous chapter will be considered only to some degree, but they will be addressed to their full extent in later chapters.

We will develop microservices that contain business logic based on plain Spring Beans and expose REST APIs using Spring WebFlux. The APIs will be documented based on the OpenAPI specification using springdoc-openapi. To make the data processed by the microservices persistent, we will use Spring Data to store data in both SQL and NoSQL databases.

Since Spring Boot v2.0 was released in March 2018, it has become much easier to develop reactive microservices, including non-blocking synchronous REST APIs. To develop message-based asynchronous services we will use Spring Cloud Stream. Refer to...

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