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Mastering Microservices with Java - Third Edition

By : Sourabh Sharma
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Mastering Microservices with Java - Third Edition

By: Sourabh Sharma

Overview of this book

Microservices are key to designing scalable, easy-to-maintain applications. This latest edition of Mastering Microservices with Java, works on Java 11. It covers a wide range of exciting new developments in the world of microservices, including microservices patterns, interprocess communication with gRPC, and service orchestration. This book will help you understand how to implement microservice-based systems from scratch. You'll start off by understanding the core concepts and framework, before focusing on the high-level design of large software projects. You'll then use Spring Security to secure microservices and test them effectively using REST Java clients and other tools. You will also gain experience of using the Netflix OSS suite, comprising the API Gateway, service discovery and registration, and Circuit Breaker. Additionally, you'll be introduced to the best patterns, practices, and common principles of microservice design that will help you to understand how to troubleshoot and debug the issues faced during development. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to build smaller, lighter, and faster services that can be implemented easily in a production environment.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Fundamentals
6
Section 2: Microservice Patterns, Security, and UI
11
Section 3: Inter-Process Communication
15
Section 4: Common Problems and Best Practices

Wrapping it up

Each of the REST clients have their own advantages and limitations. So far, RestTemplate has proved very popular, but looking at the Spring future plans and introduction of WebClient makes it less demanding. A migration to WebClient seems like a better choice.

OpenFeign is very sleek and intuitive. However, in the past, lots of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) make it vulnerable and so the least preferable choice. It also depends on lots of third-party libraries. This is where most of the CVEs were reported.

Java 11's HttpClient looks very attractive and provides lots of advanced features. If you can grab it and write an intuitive API on top of it, then it looks like the best suited choice.

We have discussed the pros and cons of each of these REST client options. You need to have a hard look and adopt one of these, or many other available REST clients...