hystrix | SOA Essentials

There are different tool stacks like nodeJs, Spring cloud which we can use to build microservice solutions. Since I’m having a Java background, in this post we will look how the spring cloud solution will help us to develop comprehensive microservices solution. This tool set is applied in my working environment and it’s running smoothly in Production setup.

Due to excellent tool support and easy integration capabilities Spring cloud with spring boot framework makes developer life stress-free.

Below diagram illustrates the full component stack. Will give you a very high level usage of each component in this post. Later we can dig deep in to each component.

Microservices architecture solutions implementation using Java framework: Spring Boot / Spring Cloud Components

RAML / Swagger / Thrift : Used to design Contract-First microservices
Zuul : Edge Server, Reverse proxy server. API gateway or gate keeper for external parties
Eureka : Act as Service registry & discovery component
Ribbon : Load balancer
Spring Cloud Config : Centralized configuration server for the MSA solution
OAuth2 / JWT : Security mechanisms which can be integrated with microservices
Hystrix : Monitoring dashboard for the services and fault tolerance configuration component
Redis / memchached : Distributed caching mechanisms
AMQP / MQTT / STOMP : Messaging protocols for asynchronous communication
REST / Thrift : Messaging mechanisms for synchronous communications
Docker / OpenStack : Deployment architectures for our microservices
Tomcat / Jetty : In-build servlet containers in Spring boot

With all the above tools and components we can build a production ready microservice solution in rapid speed. In the coming posts let’s try to grab more knowledge in those areas.

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