ityouknow/spring-cloud-examples
Spring Cloud Examples
This is a learning collection of example projects that demonstrate core Spring Cloud patterns for building microservice architectures. The repository covers the fundamental building blocks of a microservices system, including service discovery through a central registry, centralized configuration management from Git or SVN repositories, API gateway-based request routing, circuit breaker patterns for fault tolerance, and distributed request tracing across service boundaries.
The examples show how to implement service registration and dynamic discovery so that clients can locate microservices by logical name without hardcoded addresses. They demonstrate routing external requests through a single gateway entry point that can apply authentication, rate limiting, and path rewriting before forwarding to internal services. The collection also covers configuration management that allows pushing updates to running services without restart, and circuit breaker monitoring that aggregates real-time metrics from all protected service calls into a unified dashboard.
Additional capabilities include asynchronous message processing with RabbitMQ, health metric aggregation across a cluster, retry logic for failed service calls, and rate limiting per route. The examples also explore alternative service registries like Consul and demonstrate deployment automation with Jenkins and Docker.