Spring Boot Microservices — Learning through examples

Microservices is an architecture pattern that is realized through a set of patterns and technologies. This article sets the foundation for our series which helps in understanding each of these patterns along with their sample implementations. Our exercise-driven learning series is based on Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and the related technologies.

Lal Verma
6 min readAug 31, 2020
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Before we jump into the world of Microservices, let's spend some time understanding the fundamentals. As it involves, a multitude of technologies, it's easy to lose track. If you think, you are already aware of the fundamentals, associated patterns, and frameworks, you can skip it and move to the series directly.

What is Microservices?

The new architecture pattern is been adopted by almost all sizes of organizations, be it small, medium, or large. Organizations have started realizing the value of it. In spite of such widespread adoption of this pattern, it's unfortunate, there is no consistent definition of Microservices.

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