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Mastering Spring Cloud

By : Piotr Mińkowski
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Mastering Spring Cloud

By: Piotr Mińkowski

Overview of this book

Developing, deploying, and operating cloud applications should be as easy as local applications. This should be the governing principle behind any cloud platform, library, or tool. Spring Cloud–an open-source library–makes it easy to develop JVM applications for the cloud. In this book, you will be introduced to Spring Cloud and will master its features from the application developer's point of view. This book begins by introducing you to microservices for Spring and the available feature set in Spring Cloud. You will learn to configure the Spring Cloud server and run the Eureka server to enable service registration and discovery. Then you will learn about techniques related to load balancing and circuit breaking and utilize all features of the Feign client. The book now delves into advanced topics where you will learn to implement distributed tracing solutions for Spring Cloud and build message-driven microservice architectures. Before running an application on Docker container s, you will master testing and securing techniques with Spring Cloud.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


You may not be aware of the configuration settings or tools described in this chapter if you have already been using auto-configured clients for inter-service communication. However, I think that it is worth having some knowledge about a few of the advanced mechanisms, even if they can run in the background and/or out of the box. In this chapter, I have tried to give you a closer view on topics, such as load balancers, retries, fallbacks, or circuit breakers by demonstrating how they work using simple examples. After reading this chapter, you should be able to customize Ribbon, Hystrix, or Feign clients to suit your needs related to communication between microservices, both on a small and large scale. You should also understand the when and why of using them in your system. With this chapter, we are closing the discussion about the core elements inside microservices-based architecture. Now, we have got one more important component to look at that is outside the system by quite a...