In this course, you will learn how to split an existing application into smaller services and what you need to build, deploy, and run it. You will learn how you can use Docker to support your local development and how you can utilize it to run your application in the cloud. To work with multiple services, you will need (for example) service discovery and reverse proxies. To be able to maintain the development pace, you also need to break up your user interface, so every service can serve its own UI, and you need to learn how to communicate with these services synchronously using REST and asynchronously using events. To run your application, you need to know what is going on in your distributed application, so monitoring and tracing calls is an important topic as well, and one that you'll learn about. So overall, this course will give you valuable insights and recipes with which to create your own distributed application, for deployment to the cloud.

You will also see what needs to be done to upgrade a Spring Boot 1.x service to Spring Boot 2 with the recent Spring Cloud release.

About the Author

Patrick Cornelissen is a software developer at heart and the founder and CEO of the Orchit GmbH and kulinariWeb GmbH. He has written a number of applications in various languages and platforms and specializes in microservice-based applications and the transition of monolithic applications into microservices. He has been using the Spring Framework since 2009 and has been a big fan ever since. After his family, software craftsmanship is a passion of his that he pursues whenever he has any spare time. For this, he has organized, for example, code retreats and open space conferences in the past. He enjoys both learning and teaching new things in the field of (agile) software development.