You might have heard of the term cross-cutting concerns in the past. If not, cross-cutting concerns are concerns that apply to all layers of the application. Examples of these concerns are logging, monitoring, security, … . If you think about it, some cross-cutting concerns also apply to microservices. Perhaps you want to monitor how long […]
In my last few tutorials, I’ve covered some aspects that are really important with microservice, such as a discovery service like Eureka and a circuit breaker like Hystrix. Another thing that might be useful when working with microservices is to provide your application configuration as a microservice as well.
Recently I wrote some articles about the various Netflix components and how they fit into a microservice architecture. In this article I will talk about the next component that is usable with Spring boot and that’s Hystrix.
In my last article I gave a basic introduction into the concepts of a service oriented architecture (SOA) and microservices. I also made a small example about a service registry and how Netflix is involved into microservices with tools like Eureka. However, the story was quite unfinished, since we only made it possible for microservices […]
A while back I wrote a simple REST service with Spring boot. While this is quite common, we’re also seeing the word “microservice” pop up more often as well. But what is a microservice and what does Netflix has to do with it and more specifically, what is Eureka? Well, in this article I will […]