Let me share with you the result of my last couple months of work – the book published on 26th April by Packt. The book Mastering Spring Cloud is strictly linked to the topics frequently published in this blog – it describes how to build microservices using Spring Cloud framework. I tried to create this book in well-known style of writing from this blog, where I focus on giving you the practical samples of working code without unnecessary small-talk and scribbles 🙂 If you like my style of writing, and in addition you are interested in Spring Cloud framework and microservices, this book is just for you 🙂

The book consists of fifteen chapters, where I have guided you from the basic to the most advanced examples illustrating use cases for almost all projects being a part of Spring Cloud. While creating a blog posts I not always have time to go into all the details related to Spring Cloud. I’m trying to describe a lot of different, interesting trends and solutions in the area of Java development. The book describes many details related to the most important projects of Spring Cloud like service discovery, distributed configuration, inter-service communication, security, logging, testing or continuous delivery. It is available on www.packtpub.com site: https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/mastering-spring-cloud. The detailed description of all the topics raised in that book is available on that site.

Personally, I particulary recommend to read the following more advanced subjects described in the book:

• Peer-to-peer replication between multiple instances of Eureka servers, and using zoning mechanism in inter-service communication
• Automatically reloading configuration after changes with Spring Cloud Config push notifications mechanism based on Spring Cloud Bus
• Advanced configuration of inter-service communication with Ribbon client-side load balancer and Feign client
• Enabling SSL secure communication between microservices and basic elements of microservices-based architecture like service discovery or configuration server
• Building messaging microservices based on publish/subscribe communication model including cunsumer grouping, partitioning and scaling with Spring Cloud Stream and message brokers (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Setting up continuous delivery for Spring Cloud microservices with Jenkins and Docker
• Using Docker for running Spring Cloud microservices on Kubernetes platform simulated locally by Minikube
• Deploying Spring Cloud microservices on cloud platforms like Pivotal Web Services (Pivotal Cloud Foundry hosted cloud solution) and Heroku

Those examples and many others are available together with this book. At the end, a short description taken from packtpub.com site:

Developing, deploying, and operating cloud applications should be as easy as local applications. This should be the governing principle behind any cloud platform, library, or tool. Spring Cloud–an open-source library–makes it easy to develop JVM applications for the cloud. In this book, you will be introduced to Spring Cloud and will master its features from the application developer’s point of view.