A New Era Of Spring Cloud

Almost 1.5 years ago Spring Team has announced the decision of moving the most of Spring Cloud Netflix components into maintenance mode. It means that new features have no longer been added to these modules beginning from Greenwich Release Train. Currently, they are starting work on Ilford Release Train, which is removing such popular projects like Ribbon, Hystrix, or Zuul from Spring Cloud. The only module that will still be used is a Netflix discovery server — Eureka.
This change is significant for Spring Cloud since from beginning it was recognized by its integration with Netflix components. Moreover, Spring Cloud Netflix is still the most popular Spring Cloud project on GitHub (~4k stars).

Rate Limiting In Spring Cloud Gateway With Redis

Currently Spring Cloud Gateway is second the most popular Spring Cloud project just after Spring Cloud Netflix (in terms of number of stars on GitHub). It has been created as a successor of Zuul proxy in Spring Cloud family. This project provides an API Gateway for microservices architecture, and is built on top of reactive Netty and Project Reactor. It is designed to provide a simple, but effective way to route to APIs and address such popular concerns as security, monitoring/metrics, and resiliency.

Redis in Microservices Architecture

Redis can be widely used in microservices architecture. It is probably one of the few popular software solutions that may be leveraged by your application in such many different ways. Depending on the requirements it can acts as a primary database, cache, message broker. While it is also a key/value store we can use it as a configuration server or discovery server in your microservices architecture. Although it is usually defined as an in-memory data structure, we can also run it in persistent mode.
Today, I’m going to show you some examples of using Redis with microservices built on top of Spring Boot and Spring Cloud frameworks. These application will communicate between each other asynchronously using Redis Pub/Sub, using Redis as a cache or primary database, and finally used Redis as a configuration server.

Introduction to Spring Data Redis

Redis is an in-memory data structure store with optional durability, used as database, cache and message broker. Currently, it is the most most popular tool in the key/value stores category: https://db-engines.com/en/ranking/key-value+store. The easiest way to integrate your application with Redis is through Spring Data Redis. You can use Spring RedisTemplate directly for that or you might as well use Spring Data Redis repositories. There are some limitations when you integrate with Redis via Spring Data Redis repositories. They require at least Redis Server version 2.8.0 and do not work with transactions. Therefore you need to disable transaction support for RedisTemplate, which is leveraged by Redis repositories.