Ryan J. Baxter

As I have talked about before, one of the key aspects of cloud native applications is resiliency. In order to be robust and avoid all the potential problems that can come from running in such a volatile environment like the cloud your application needs...

Typically when you are using Spring Cloud Eureka for service discovery and you shutdown an instance that is registered with the server that instance is removed fromthe registry. However in some cases that might not be happen and instead the instanceis...

Most applications today make HTTP requests to external services. When usingSpring Cloud one way to make these requests is to use what we call a“load balanced RestTemplate”.Creating a load balanced RestTemplate is pretty strait forward.
The added @LoadBalanced annotation allows you to take advantage of services registeredwith a discovery service, such as Eureka. As you can see in the doOtherStuff methodwe are making a request to the URL http://stores/stores. The hostname, stores,is...

If you are a user of Zuul from Spring Cloud Netflix, than you likely knowthat all the routes you configure that use Ribbon are also wrapped in Hystrixcommands. This nice little feature provides a circuit breaker for allyour proxied requests through Zuul...