preface
acknowledgments
about this book
about the authors
About the cover illustration
1 Welcome to the cloud, Spring
1.1 The evolution towards a microservices architecture
N-tier architecture
What’s a monolithic architecture?
What’s a microservice?
Why change the way we build applications?
1.2 Microservices with Spring
1.3 What are we building?
1.4 What is this book about?
What you’ll learn in this book
Why is this book relevant to you?
1.5 Cloud and microservice-based applications
Building a microservice with Spring Boot
What exactly is cloud computing?
Why the cloud and microservices?
1.6 Microservices are more than writing the code
1.7 Core microservice development pattern
1.8 Microservice routing patterns
