Introducing Spring Cloud

In Chapter 4, Evolution toward Microservices and Cloud-Native Applications, we discussed the problems with monolithic applications and how architectures evolved toward microservices. However, microservices have their own sets of challenges:

  • Organizations adopting microservice architectures also need to make challenging decisions around the consistency of microservices without affecting the innovation capabilities of the microservice teams.
  • Smaller applications mean more builds, releases, and deployments. This is usually addressed using more automation.
  • Microservice architectures are built based on a large number of smaller, fine-grained services. There are challenges associated with managing configuration and availability ...

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