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Mastering Spring 5.0

By : In28Minutes Official
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Mastering Spring 5.0

By: In28Minutes Official

Overview of this book

Spring 5.0 is due to arrive with a myriad of new and exciting features that will change the way we’ve used the framework so far. This book will show you this evolution—from solving the problems of testable applications to building distributed applications on the cloud. The book begins with an insight into the new features in Spring 5.0 and shows you how to build an application using Spring MVC. You will realize how application architectures have evolved from monoliths to those built around microservices. You will then get a thorough understanding of how to build and extend microservices using Spring Boot. You will also understand how to build and deploy Cloud-Native microservices with Spring Cloud. The advanced features of Spring Boot will be illustrated through powerful examples. We will be introduced to a JVM language that’s quickly gaining popularity - Kotlin. Also, we will discuss how to set up a Kotlin project in Eclipse. By the end of the book, you will be equipped with the knowledge and best practices required to develop microservices with the Spring Framework.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

The Name server


Microservice architectures involve a number of smaller microservices interacting with each other. Adding to this, there can be multiple instances of each microservice. Maintaining the external service connections and configurations manually would be difficult as new instances of microservices are dynamically created and destroyed. Name servers provide features of service registration and service discovery. Name servers allow microservices to register themselves and also discover the URLs to other microservices they want to interact with.

Limitations of hard coding microservice URLs

In the previous example, we added the following configuration to application.properties in the service consumer microservice:

    random-proxy.ribbon.listOfServers=
      http://localhost:8080,http://localhost:8081

This configuration represents all instances of Microservice A. Take a look at these situations:

  • A new instance of Microservice A is created
  • An existing instance of Microservice A is no longer...