Spring Cloud - Blueprint for Successful Microservices
If you are interested in building Microservices in the JVM ecosystem- you have to check out Spring Cloud. Spring Cloud is a project which goal is to make Microservices architecture and patterns simple and practical to use. Spring Boot provides opinionated way of making a Microservice, Spring Cloud gives you an opinionated framework for getting your architecture around them. The Scope of Spring Cloud Spring Cloud is a large project that is difficult to talk about as a whole. It is easier to look at individual components and see what they bring to the table. One great thing about Spring Cloud is that you are free to mix and match the components. You may for example want to use Spring Cloud Config server and nothing else. You can even use that with non-Java based microservices. Here are the parts of Spring Cloud with brief descriptions of what they do: ...