The goal of the book

As you are going to learn in this book, you are able to use your existing Java EE knowledge to create microservices architecture. This knowledge will not be sufficient though, because, as we mentioned in the Microservices section, this kind of architecture introduces its own complexity, which has to be handled.

The goal of this book is to fill this knowledge gap by providing you with a practical, hands-on introduction to the development of microservice-based applications running on cloud infrastructures. This book makes an assumption that you are familiar with Java EE and the traditional way of developing Java EE applications. It will complement this knowledge with the information about a concrete set of tools that will allow you to immediately take advantage of both cloud computing and microservices.

We will like to emphasize that this book does not advertise any particular methodology, and, as we mentioned in the Microservices section, any architecture decision should be made with regard to the concrete project, taking into consideration all the advantages and disadvantages. Our goal is to provide you with a set of tools so that if you decide to make such a transition, you will immediately know what to do.

Throughout the book, we will develop a sample application, which will serve as a base for all our examples. Let's learn more about it now.