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Spring: Microservices with Spring Boot

By : In28Minutes Official
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Spring: Microservices with Spring Boot

By: In28Minutes Official

Overview of this book

Microservices helps in decomposing applications into small services and move away from a single monolithic artifact. It helps in building systems that are scalable, flexible, and high resilient. Spring Boot helps in building REST-oriented, production-grade microservices. This book is a quick learning guide on how to build, monitor, and deploy microservices with Spring Boot. You'll be first familiarized with Spring Boot before delving into building microservices. You will learn how to document your microservice with the help of Spring REST docs and Swagger documentation. You will then learn how to secure your microservice with Spring Security and OAuth2. You will deploy your app using a self-contained HTTP server and also learn to monitor a microservice with the help of Spring Boot actuator. This book is ideal for Java developers who knows the basics of Spring programming and want to build microservices with Spring Boot. This book is embedded with useful assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book. This book is repurposed for this specific learning experience from material from Packt's Mastering Spring 5.0 by Ranga Rao Karanam.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

Chapter 1. Building Microservices with Spring Boot

As we discussed in the last lesson, we are moving toward architectures with smaller, independently deployable microservices. This would mean that there will be a huge number of smaller microservices developed.

An important consequence is that we would need to be able to quickly get off the ground and get running with new components.

Spring Boot aims to solve the problem of getting off fast with a new component. In this lesson, we will start with understanding the capabilities Spring Boot brings to the table. We will answer the following questions:

  • Why Spring Boot?

  • What are the features that Spring Boot provides?

  • What is auto-configuration?

  • What is Spring Boot not?

  • What happens in the background when you use Spring Boot?

  • How do you use Spring Initializr to create new Spring Boot projects?

  • How do you create basic RESTful services with Spring Boot?