Chapter 2. Building Microservices with Spring Boot
Developing microservices is not so tedious anymore thanks to the powerful Spring Boot framework. Spring Boot is a framework to develop production-ready microservices in Java.
This chapter will move from the microservices theory explained in the previous chapter to hands-on practice by reviewing code samples. This chapter will introduce the Spring Boot framework and explain how Spring Boot can help build RESTful microservices in line with the principles and characteristics discussed in the previous chapter. Finally, some of the features offered by Spring Boot to make microservices production-ready will be reviewed.
By the end of this chapter, you will have learned about:
Setting up the latest Spring development environment
Developing RESTful services using the Spring framework
Using Spring Boot to build fully qualified microservices
Useful Spring Boot features to build production-ready microservices