In this chapter, we have seen how Spring Cloud has evolved from being rather Netflix OSS-centric to having a much larger scope as of today. We also introduced how components from the latest release of Spring Cloud Greenwich can be used to implement some of the design patterns we described in Chapter 1, Introduction to Microservices, in the Design patterns for microservices section. These design patterns are required to make a landscape of cooperating microservices production-ready.
Head over to the next chapter to see how we can implement service discovery using Netflix Eureka and Spring Cloud load balancer!
