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Spring Boot 2.0 Cookbook

You're reading from   Spring Boot 2.0 Cookbook Configure, test, extend, deploy, and monitor your Spring Boot application both outside and inside the cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
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ISBN-13 9781787129825
Length 286 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Spring Boot FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuring Web Applications 3. Web Framework Behavior Tuning 4. Writing Custom Spring Boot Starters 5. Application Testing 6. Application Packaging and Deployment 7. Health Monitoring and Data Visualization 8. Spring Boot DevTools 9. Spring Cloud 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Service discovery using Spring Cloud Consul

In a world of distributed computing, it is very common for services to become a disposable commodity. The typical life cycle of a service could be measured in days, if not in hours, and it is not unheard of for an instance to just crash for whatever reason, only to have a new one come up automatically seconds later. When the state of applications is so ephemeral, it becomes really hard to maintain a statically-connected architecture, with services knowing where exactly their dependent services are located, as the topology is always changing.

To help with this problem, the service discovery layer comes into play, maintaining a centralized and distributed state of service registrations, ready to reply on demand with the most current information. Applications register themselves upon startup, providing information about their location and...

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