Introducing the microservice landscape

In Chapter 1, Introduction to Microservices, we were briefly introduced to the microservice-based system landscape that we will use throughout this book:

It consists of three core microservices, the Product, Review, and Recommendation services, all of which deal with one type of resource, and a composite microservice called the Product Composite service, which aggregates information from the three core services. 

Information handled by microservices

To keep the source code examples in this book easy to understand, they have a minimal amount of business logic. The information model for the business objects they process is kept minimal for the same reason. In this section, we will...