Spring MVC: Designing Real-World Web Applications

Summary

Deploying our application on a cloud provider is really straightforward as it is a runnable jar, thanks to Spring Boot. Cloud deployment is very affordable nowadays and deploying a Java application has become almost too easy.

With sessions backed by Redis, we laid the basics of a scalable application. Indeed, we can effortlessly add multiple servers behind a load balancer and absorb high traffic on demand.

The only thing that is not scalable is our WebSocket that will need additional work to run on top of a message broker, such as Rabbit MQ.

I can certainly remember a time where finding a host running a Tomcat was rare and pricey. Those days are long gone and the future belongs to web developers, so make it happen!

In the next chapter, we ...