MicroServices using Spring Boot & Spring Cloud – Part 1 : Overview

An introductory overview of building microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. Covers the drawbacks of monolithic architecture, the definition and benefits of microservices, and the challenges they introduce. Explains how Spring Cloud addresses distributed system concerns through modules like Config Server, Service Registry (Eureka), Circuit Breaker (Hystrix), Distributed Tracing (Sleuth/Zipkin), and Spring Cloud Security. Introduces a sample shopping cart application with multiple services (catalog, inventory, cart, order, customer) that will be built throughout the series.