Building a Cloud Native Application using Spring
Cloud native applications are one of the most impactful ways of building applications for the global population. Spring Boot mixed with Spring Cloud gives developers a rapid starting point for building Cloud Native as well as Microservices based systems. WHAT ARE MICROSERVICES? It is similar to Services Oriented Architecture or SOA but are not SOA. In Microservices, the communication is mostly being made using REST or gRPC (uses Protocol Buffers as binary data interchange) where SOA communicates using SOAP. A single microservice is a single domain, single purpose service such as data service and process service. WHY SPRING BOOT? Spring Boot was designed for two main purposes, Microservices is one of them. Spring cloud adds 12 factor plumbing to a Java Based Microservices Application. Our main focus is to Build a Microservices and Cloud Native Application rather than a Spring Based Application. Spring Boot with the help of Spring Cloud serves the purpose. ...