It is not an exaggeration to say the world is moving to the cloud.

Cloud-native microservices and applications are the order of the day. We will discuss this in detail in Chapter 11, Getting Started with Microservices.

Spring is taking rapid strides toward making application development for the cloud simpler with Spring Cloud.

Spring Cloud provides solutions for common patterns in distributed systems. Spring Cloud enables developers to quickly create applications that implement common patterns. Some of the common patterns implemented in Spring Cloud are listed as follows:

• Configuration management
• Service discovery
• Circuit breakers
• Intelligent routing

We will discuss Spring Cloud and its varied range of features in more detail in Chapter 11, Getting Started with Microservices.