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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)

Twelve-factor applications

Despite the characteristics of the cloud, there several factors that make an application a cloud-native application, and these can be found in the The Twelve-Factor App manifesto, available at https://12factor.net/

Let's analyze these twelve factors one by one.

Code base

The first factor is related to the source code, where it is kept, and how it should be kept. Every change in the code must be saved and tracked into the source code repository. Nowadays, there are plenty of choices: GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, Stash, and the old SVN (it's a revolution, so switch to Git). All of the code, including infrastructure as code, should be versioned, and each version potentially corresponds to a...