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 AB

Magnus Larsson has been in the IT industry since 1986, working as a consultant for large companies in Sweden, such as Volvo, Ericsson, and AstraZeneca. In the past, he struggled with the challenges associated with distributed systems. However, these challenges can be handled today with open-source tools such as Spring Cloud, Kubernetes, and Istio. Over the last eight years, Magnus has been helping customers use these tools and has done several presentations and blog posts on the subject.
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This book does an excellent job of covering open source tools such as Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, the EFK stack, Prometheus, and Grafana.Some of the tools I was familiar with, others not so much, so this was massively helpful in understanding the different tools, how they overlap, and knowing when to choose which tool for which task.The code is hosted on GitHub, has been updated recently (in Aug & Sep 2023, as of time of writing), and is easy to follow along with. Knowing at least the fundamentals of Java and Spring beforehand would be valuable, in my opinion.I particularly liked the microservices introduction, which explains various challenges and how microservices can address them.If you're a Java and Spring developer / architect looking to use microservices, I would recommend this book.

If you're in search of a practical roadmap for initiating your journey into Microservices with Spring Boot, complete with realistic solutions and a coherent path to navigate as you scale and evolve your systems, then this book is tailor-made for you.The book offers a lucid and effortlessly comprehensible guide, addressing prevalent issues at every developmental stage. It commences by dissecting the fundamentals of microservices and subsequently progresses to integrating them with tools like Docker and Kubernetes.The author's writing style exhibits clarity. The chapters and steps are well organized, with well-explained and justified implementation decisions. Beyond being a proficient coding manual, it equips you with all the basic information to adopt every presented tool. The introductions to each new concept are succinct, tangible, and effectively immerse you in their applications. For example, the persistence section is nicely wrote to get you running without overwhelming information.One more thing: the author constantly shows how to test. From manual unit test to performance tests. It's there. It's covered. It's a real example. The best reference you can have.This book serves not merely as an initiation, but also promptly delves into the best practices employed by adept practitioners of these architectural patterns.

This book is ideal for anyone that wants understand Microservices with Spring Boot 3 + Spring Cloud ☁️ full of examples, easy to understand and step-by-step tutorials of how to build what you need. 10/10 !!!

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