Spring Cloud

It is not an exaggeration to say The world is moving to the Cloud.

Cloud Native microservices and applications are the order of the day. We will discuss this in detail in Chapter 4, Evolution toward Microservices and Cloud-Native Applications.

Spring is taking rapid strides toward making application development for the Cloud simpler with Spring Cloud.

Spring Cloud provides solutions for common patterns in distributed systems. Spring Cloud enables developers to quickly create applications that implement common patterns. Some of the common patterns implemented in Spring Cloud are listed as follows:

• Configuration management
• Service discovery
• Circuit breakers
• Intelligent routing

We will discuss Spring Cloud and its varied range features in more detail in Chapter 9, Spring Cloud.