spring boot microservices

March 27, 2020

Developing Reactive Microservices With Spring Data and Distributed SQL

In 2016 in the keynote presentation of Spring One Platform, Juergen Hoeller announced Spring WebFlux, one of the most highly anticipated projects being worked on by the Spring Team due to the performance gains that reactive streams promised for web controllers. Subsequently, with Spring Framework 5.0, Spring Reactive MVC went GA along with the release of WebFlux API, making the reactive stream-based web controller mainstream.

Fast-forward to 2020, Spring WebFlux MVC has gained wide adoption in cloud-native applications, where developers strive for high throughput and low latency microservices. Clearly there has been a shift towards the reactive programming model, now that many of the database providers support reactive drivers where traditional blocking database calls are replaced by async and non-blocking back pressure aware data access.

February 6, 2019

Implementing Event Sourcing Using Axon and Spring Boot – Part 1

In a previous post, we explored various data management patterns for microservices. One of the patterns we discussed was Event Sourcing. In this post, we will take the first step towards implementing Event Sourcing using Axon and Spring Boot.

So here's our plan of action:

January 16, 2019

Top Microservices Interview Questions for 2019, Part 1

A survey by Nginx shows that 36% of enterprises are currently using microservices, while another 26% are doing research on how to implement them. So now could be a good time to get into microservice development. Read on for an overview of some of the most common microservices interview questions.

1. What Is Spring Cloud?

Spring Cloud, in microservices, is a system that provides integration with external systems. It is a short-lived framework that builds an application, fast. Being associated with the finite amount of data processing, it plays a very important role in microservice architectures.