Service Registration and Discovery

Setup a Netflix Eureka service registry and then build a client that both registers itself with the registry and uses it to resolve its own host. A service registry is useful because it enables client-side load-balancing and decouples service providers from consumers without the need for DNS.

Spring Cloud Config

Spring Cloud Config is Spring’s client/server approach for storing and serving distributed configurations across multiple applications and environments.

Routing and Filtering

process of routing and filtering requests to a microservice application using the Netflix Zuul edge service library.

Client Side Load Balancing

Process of providing client-side load balancing for a microservice application using Netflix Ribbon.

Circuit Breaker

Process of applying circuit breakers to potentially-failing method calls using the Netflix Hystrix fault tolerance library.