Building Microservices With Spring Boot

Sofiene Ben Khemis
8 min readFeb 4, 2021
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Microservices are an architectural approach to application development. A microservices architecture differs from a classic monolithic approach in that it breaks down the application to isolate key functions. Each of these functions is called a “service” and these services can be developed and deployed independently of each other. Thus, each can function (or malfunction) without affecting the others.

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With the growing popularity of microservices in the industry, there has been a boom in technologies and platforms from which to choose to build applications. Sometimes it’s hard to choose something to start with. In this article, I will show you how to create a microservices application based on Spring Boot 🔥 🔥.

Let’s create a small e-commerce application and focus on the product and cart parts only.

Our application will have the following scenarios :

  • Add one or many products to the application’s database
  • Get product list
  • Add product to cart
  • Get cart products
  • Delete product from the cart
  • Delete all products…

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Sofiene Ben Khemis
Sofiene Ben Khemis

Written by Sofiene Ben Khemis

Software Engineer & AWS Community Builder I’m not perfect. still running after my dreams. going to the moon 🌑

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