The economics of the cloud and the demand created by new platforms like mobile and social have led the giants of the web to the microservices architecture style. Microservices sit at the intersection of DevOps, web services, Big Data and the cloud. They scale out, embrace (and are resilient to) failure. Microservices also promote the use of the best technology for the job, and introduce complexity of their own in the interactions. In this workshop, we'll examine the practical approaches to building cloud-native applications and microservices, using the open-source Spring Boot and Spring Cloud technologies.

Spring Cloud is here! It offers a powerful way to create and consume microservices. As you introduce new services, you introduce integration problems: services can be shaky, they can disappear and - as they're often exposed over HTTP - they require a bit more footwork than in-process method invocations.

In this presentation, we'll focus specifically on how Spring Cloud integrates service registration (e.g. Eureka), declarative REST clients (with Netflix's Feign), reactive programming and the circuit breaker pattern with Hystrix to support easy, robust service-to-service invocations, and messaging microservices with Spring Cloud Stream. 

This is a deep dive on how to make connect and consume microservices, and is a natural next step after an introduction to building microservices with Spring Boot.