Hands-On Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud: Build and deploy Java microservices using Spring Cloud, Istio, and Kubernetes 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

This is a great book. It's the most thorough examination of this topic I have seen to date. The example code is worth its weight in gold, even if it has a few minor problems. Just knowing that it worked as written for the author provides the reader with a baseline from which to work that is very valuable as a reference design / starting point. If you intend to try to go through all the examples on Windows, you will run into many issues, and it will take you longer. The test-em-all.bash script works on Git Bash for the first 12 chapters or so. I had some good luck with the Windows Subsystem for Linux - Ubuntu in the later chapters, but I will probably switch to a cloud instance or use my MacBook for the last 4 chapters. Again, this is a great book, well worth the price.

It's a good book if you want to learn something about docker and its integration with spring boot.

This is a a great book if you want to get the flow of micro service pattern using spring cloud. Excellent, the way author explained the concept. the source code works and the examples are real cases you would encounter if you are lucku to work on spring microservices project.if you get a build error on springfox-swagger dependencies, add the dependencies in product-composite-service. Not sure this was not documented on errata page implementation('org.springframework.plugin:spring-plugin-core:2.0.0.RELEASE')

The author has a very readable style. I will revisit this review after I work through the issues with the Dockerfile not working with Docker 20.10.

I've finished the first 6 chapters of this book and it's the best Spring book I've read. It uses Spring Boot 2.1 with JDK 12 so it may be the only up to date book on Spring Boot available right now. Most other Spring books are in need of an update for Spring Boot 2 and current versions of the JDK.The author smartly includes source code for each chapter which allows easily seeing the changes from one chapter to another as the book progresses. And his source code builds and runs correctly, which is not the case for some other Spring books. The author and technical reviewer did quality work.The book uses Docker containers right from the early chapters including docker-compose. The third section of the book covers Kubernetes, which I haven't gotten to yet. I'll post an update to this review if needed as I complete this book.This is not an introduction to Spring Boot so it probably shouldn't be your first book on Spring Boot. This is the book to get if you want to know the state of the art in Spring Boot microservices and how they are actually deployed and orchestrated.

Best book I have read about the topic. It goes from generic concepts to details, making the learning process easy

Has catchy topics covered but not really useful.

It's best to learn by doing so this book showed great promise. Despite having decades of software experience, I quickly felt lost. The pre-written examples are overly complex and often don't compile. You really should already be an expert with Gradle, Spring, Docker, microservices and other technologies before attempting to build any of the examples. It took days of effort to get through the first code chapter. Eventually this book went onto the shelf. After a year, there are hundreds of pages left that I haven't even started on. It would be easier to learn by building stuff based on random internet tutorials. Despite wanting to like this book, a recommendation isn't warranted.Update: A few months later, and I'm a third of the way through. Nearly every chapter requires days of debugging. Instead of explaining how or why the code is intended to function, you are told to 'diff' the code against a prior chapter to see what changes were made. When the code fails to compile or work, you're left with hours of debugging. Swagger has never worked, and about half of the test cases won't function properly. Each chapter commingles several concepts, so it's hard to discern how individual code changes support a given topic. This isn't a productive way to learn a new concept or topic.

This book is horribly written, seriously if you expect to write code yourself you are better off researching particular topics yourself. This book doesn't show you or make you write code, it overviews actual code that someone written for the purpose of this book. It is a sin to write a book that claims to be "step by step how to use these open source tools together" and just overview the code that one of the authors wrote. I definitely did not learn how to break up existing code, as the book doesn't show you examples on how to actually think things through in terms of rewriting. Honestly the worst programming book I had finished.

Soso. All moving parts are there, but too much space wasted with screenshots and (trivial) code snippets, where I would have liked a more in-depth explanation of the concepts. And then there are some issues I have, but that’s probably me: The architecture seems to bloated for the tiny use case presented throughout the book, Springfox is given a whole chapter in the book, although the project seems dead, and some things are IMHO completely wrong: If I read it correctly, the “async” reading, where the author deals with blocking I/O in Chapter 7 is not async at all. Nice to skim through, but not enough for a thorough introduction.

The book does not talk about how Spring Cloud is implemented or used. The main focus of the book is to expose the features of Cloud fundamentails and does not much talk about how to create good application. Example used in book is so easy that i dont even want to implement these services in real life enviornment

Sehr empfehlenswert. Aus meiner Sicht wird auf Praxisrelevante Themen didaktisch hervorragend eingegangen und die Beispiele sind qualitativ sehr hochwertig (ladet die aktuelleste Version bei GitHub runter). Ich habe die Kubernetesbeispiele so erweitert, dass sie auf der Google Kubernetes Engine laufen mit den jeweils akutellen Komponenten. Mit dem Einsatz von Skaffold und JIB eine gute Übung.

Good book. Indeed... But code reference is too verbose and not concise. Overall, good enough for experienced folks