You're reading from Building Microservices with Micronaut® A quick-start guide to building high-performance reactive microservices for Java developers

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800564237

Length 362 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Gradle

Concepts

Microservices

Authors (2):

Zack Dawood

Nirmal Singh

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Core Concepts and Basics

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Microservices Using the Micronaut Framework FREE CHAPTER

3. Section 2: Microservices Development

4. Chapter 2: Working on Data Access

5. Chapter 3: Working on RESTful Web Services

6. Chapter 4: Securing the Microservices

7. Chapter 5: Integrating Microservices Using Event-Driven Architecture

8. Section 3: Microservices Testing

9. Chapter 6: Testing Microservices

10. Section 4: Microservices Deployment

11. Chapter 7: Handling Microservice Concerns

12. Chapter 8: Deploying Microservices

13. Section 5: Microservices Maintenance

14. Chapter 9: Distributed Logging, Tracing, and Monitoring

15. Section 6: IoT with Micronaut and Closure

16. Chapter 10: IoT with Micronaut

17. Chapter 11: Building Enterprise-Grade Microservices

18. Assessment

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