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Spring Boot 2.0 Projects

By : Mohamed Shazin Sadakath
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Spring Boot 2.0 Projects

By: Mohamed Shazin Sadakath

Overview of this book

Spring Boot is a lightweight framework that provides a set of tools to create production-grade applications and services. Spring Boot 2.0 Projects is a comprehensive project-based guide for those who are new to Spring, that will get you up to speed with building real-world projects. Complete with clear step-by-step instructions, these easy-to-follow tutorials demonstrate best practices and key insights into building efficient applications with Spring Boot. The book starts off by teaching you how to develop a web application using Spring Boot, followed by giving you an understanding of creating a Spring Boot-based simple blog management system that uses Elasticsearch as the data store. Next, you’ll build a RESTful web services application using Kotlin and the Spring WebFlux framework - a new framework that enables you to create reactive applications in a functional way. Toward the last few chapters, you will build a taxi-hailing API with reactive microservices using Spring Boot, in addition to developing a Twitter clone with the help of a Spring Boot backend. To build on your knowledge further, you’ll also learn how to construct an asynchronous email formatter. By the end of this book, you’ll have a firm foundation in Spring programming and understand how to build powerful, engaging applications in Java using the Spring Boot framework.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Using Docker to support microservices

Microservice architectures need to be able to scale up and scale down as and when required based on demand. It is best to use a container platform such as Docker to achieve this.

Understanding Docker

Docker is a very popular container platform. Containerization, as opposed to virtualization, is the process of deploying applications in a portable and predictable manner by packaging components along with their dependencies into isolated, standard process environments called containers. Docker is used by many developers and IT operations staff to provide independence from the underlying infrastructure and applications they run. Docker can be run on on-premise hardware, in the cloud, or in...