Top "Microservices" questions

An architectural approach to developing a single application as a suite of small individually deployable services.

What is the real difference between an API and an microservice?

I am learning about microservices and I don't understand what the real difference between creating a REST API and creating …

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Customizing Zuul Exception

I have a scenario in Zuul where the service that the URL is routed too might be down . So the …

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Microservices and database joins

For people that are splitting up monolithic applications into microservices how are you handling the connundrum of breaking apart the …

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Communication between two microservices

I am creating a project with microservices architecture. And I created two microservices. One of them is for product entity, …

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What is the difference between microservices and webservices?

The closest I got to finding the actual difference is this article. But I didn't understand what would make me …

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What is the role of Zookeeper vs Eureka for microservices?

I am going to implement the orchestration of a set of microservices in my application. Two widely using tools I …

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Single Sign-On in Microservice Architecture

I'm trying to design a green-field project that will have several services (serving data) and web-applications (serving HTML). I've read …

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Reactive Programming Advantages/Disadvantages

I keep studying and trying Reactive Style of coding using Reactor and RxJava. I do understand that reactive coding makes …

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Microservices: What are smart endpoints and dumb pipes?

I have read an article "Microservices" by Martin Fowler and find it difficult to understand smart endpoints and dumb pipes. …

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feign.RetryableException: Read timed out executing GET

I have below architecture in my project My UI Service(Port 8080) making Feign call to Gateway Service(Port 8085). My Get …

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