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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)

Runtime environments

As mentioned earlier, a cloud-native application is a self-contained unit, hence it generally contains everything it needs to run. At the time of writing, the most-used frameworks to build a cloud-native application or a microservice are the following:

  • Spring Boot
  • Thorntail (formerly WildFly Swarm)
  • Vert.x

Spring Boot

The process of creating standalone, production-grade, and easy-to-run Spring is made convenient by Spring Boot 2. Most Spring Boot applications need very little Spring configuration.

Spring Boot offer the following features:

  • Create standalone Spring applications
  • Embed Tomcat, Jetty, or Undertow directly (no need to deploy WAR files)
  • Dependency management through starters and various package...