Microservices and the cloud

In order to implement a successful microservices architecture, we will need to automate as much of the infrastructure as possible. Eventually, we will be dealing with a system containing a large number of independent services running somewhere across the network. Maintaining such systems manually is virtually impossible.

We will like each service to be automatically built, tested, scaled, and monitored. The cloud infrastructure is a natural microservices environment, which allows you to achieve that. Each service can be run and scaled on resources provided on demand, and the tools available will allow us to build, test, and connect the services in a fault-tolerant way.

You will learn about all of those in this book.

It's time to look how Java EE can fit into the cloud-microservices picture.