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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)

Vert.x

Vert.x is an open source Eclipse toolkit used to build distributed and reactive systems that provides a flexible way to write applications that are lightweight and responsive through its implementations of Reactive Stream principles.

It is designed to be cloud-native: it allows many processes to run with very few resources (threads, CPU, and so on). In this way, Vert.x applications can use their CPU quotas more effectively in cloud environments. There is not unnecessary overhead caused by the creation of a great number of new threads.

It defines an asynchronous and non-blocking development model based on an event loop that handles requests, and avoids long waitings, on the client side, while the server side is stressed by a high number of invocations.

Since it's a toolkit and not a framework, Vert.x can be used as a typical third-party library, and you are free to...