Four Spring Cloud Projects That You Should Be Using

Since I’ve moved up to the Seattle-area three years ago, there’s been a hole in my life. No longer. The Habit just opened up around the corner from me. I missed that place! While most of the attention (including my own) is on the Charburger, they actually have a pretty deep menu. I thought about that this week when looking at the latest Spring Cloud portfolio. While it’s used millions of times per month by Java developers —and usage grew 137% over the past year alone—Spring Cloud is best known for its Config Server and packaging of NetflixOSS tech. You know, things for service discovery, load balancing, circuit breakers, etc. THEY DESERVE THE GLORY. But there are four other interesting packages that you shouldn’t overlook.

Spring Cloud Stream

It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of this library. It abstracts away all the complexity of dealing with message…