In this chapter, we will continue the subject discussed in the previous chapter, inter-service communication. We will extend it to more advanced samples of load balancing, timeouts, and circuit breaking.
Spring Cloud provides features that make implementation of communication between microservices nice and simple. However, we must not forget that the major difficulties we would face with such communication concern the processing time of the systems involved. If you have many microservices in your system, one of the first issues you need to deal with is the problem of latency. In this chapter, I would like to discuss a few Spring Cloud features that help us to avoid latency problems that are caused by many hops between services when processing a single input request, slow responses from several services, or a temporary unavailability of services. There are several strategies for dealing with partial failures. These include setting network...