With an API gateway, we have finished the discussion about the implementation of the core elements of a microservice-based architecture in Spring Cloud. After reading that part of the book, you should be able to customize and use tools such as Eureka, Spring Cloud Config, Ribbon, Feign, Hystrix, and finally a gateway based on Zuul and Spring Cloud Gateway together.
Treat this chapter as a comparison between two available solutions—the older Netflix Zuul and the newest one, Spring Cloud Gateway. The second of them is changing dynamically. Its current version, 2.0, may be used only with Spring 5 and is still not available in release version. The first of them, Netflix Zuul, is stable, but it does not support asynchronous, non-blocking ...
