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Hands-On Cloud-Native Microservices with Jakarta EE

By : Luigi Fugaro, Mauro Vocale
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Hands-On Cloud-Native Microservices with Jakarta EE

By: Luigi Fugaro, Mauro Vocale

Overview of this book

Businesses today are evolving rapidly, and developers now face the challenge of building applications that are resilient, flexible, and native to the cloud. To achieve this, you'll need to be aware of the environment, tools, and resources that you're coding against. The book will begin by introducing you to cloud-native architecture and simplifying the major concepts. You'll learn to build microservices in Jakarta EE using MicroProfile with Thorntail and Narayana LRA. You'll then delve into cloud-native application x-rays, understanding the MicroProfile specification and the implementation/testing of microservices. As you progress further, you'll focus on continuous integration and continuous delivery, in addition to learning how to dockerize your services. You'll also cover concepts and techniques relating to security, monitoring, and troubleshooting problems that might occur with applications after you've written them. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the skills you need to build highly resilient applications using cloud-native microservice architecture.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Monitoring

Monitoring is a key point of any microservice architecture and, in particular, for any cloud-based architecture. No matter what, your architecture needs to have a monitoring platform so that it can constantly observe the performance of the system, its reliability, its resource availability and consumption, its security and storage, and so on.

However, choosing the correct platform can be difficult, because there are a lot of components that come into play. The tasks that are used to properly implement a monitoring solution platform are as follows:

  • Use one platform: A platform that's capable of discovering and grasping information of the running systems, and aggregate the result in a comprehensive way using charts.
  • Identify metrics and events: An application is responsible for exposing these metrics, and the platform should take only the ones that are the most...