About this book

Microservices architecture allows developers to build and maintain applications with ease, and enterprises are rapidly adopting it to build software using Spring Boot as their default framework. With this book, you’ll learn how to efficiently build and deploy microservices using Spring Boot. This microservices book will take you through tried and tested approaches to building distributed systems and implementing microservices architecture in your organization. Starting with a set of simple cooperating microservices developed using Spring Boot, you’ll learn how you can add functionalities such as persistence, make your microservices reactive, and describe their APIs using Swagger/OpenAPI. As you advance, you’ll understand how to add different services from Spring Cloud to your microservice system. The book also demonstrates how to deploy your microservices using Kubernetes and manage them with Istio for improved security and traffic management. Finally, you’ll explore centralized log management using the EFK stack and monitor microservices using Prometheus and Grafana. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build microservices that are scalable and robust using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud.

Publication date:: September 2019
Publisher: Packt
Pages: 668
ISBN: 9781789613476
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Section 1: Getting Started with Microservice Development Using Spring Boot

In this section, you will learn how to use some of the most important features of Spring Boot to develop microservices.

This section includes the following chapters:

Chapter 1, Introduction to Microservices
Chapter 2, Introduction to Spring Boot
Chapter 3, Creating a Set of Cooperating Microservices
Chapter 4, Deploying Our Microservices Using Docker
Chapter 5, Adding API Description Using OpenAPI/Swagger
Chapter 6, Adding Persistence
Chapter 7, Developing Reactive Microservices

About the Author

Magnus Larsson

Magnus Larsson, an IT industry veteran since 1986, has consulted for major Swedish firms such as Volvo, Ericsson, and AstraZeneca. Despite past struggles with distributed systems, today's open source tools such as Spring Cloud, Kubernetes, and Istio offer effective solutions. For the past 10 years, Magnus has been helping customers use these tools and has shared his insights through presentations and blog posts.
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This book is horribly written, seriously if you expect to write code yourself you are better off researching particular topics yourself. This book doesn't show you or make you write code, it overviews actual code that someone written for the purpose of this book. It is a sin to write a book that claims to be "step by step how to use these open source tools together" and just overview the code that one of the authors wrote. I definitely did not learn how to break up existing code, as the book doesn't show you examples on how to actually think things through in terms of rewriting. Honestly the worst programming book I had finished.

Soso. All moving parts are there, but too much space wasted with screenshots and (trivial) code snippets, where I would have liked a more in-depth explanation of the concepts. And then there are some issues I have, but that’s probably me: The architecture seems to bloated for the tiny use case presented throughout the book, Springfox is given a whole chapter in the book, although the project seems dead, and some things are IMHO completely wrong: If I read it correctly, the “async” reading, where the author deals with blocking I/O in Chapter 7 is not async at all. Nice to skim through, but not enough for a thorough introduction.

The book does not talk about how Spring Cloud is implemented or used. The main focus of the book is to expose the features of Cloud fundamentails and does not much talk about how to create good application. Example used in book is so easy that i dont even want to implement these services in real life enviornment

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