What is Spring Cloud?
It provides tools for developers to quickly build some of the common patterns in distributed systems.
Spring Cloud is a tool in the Frameworks (Full Stack) category of a tech stack.
Who uses Spring Cloud?
Companies
82 companies reportedly use Spring Cloud in their tech stacks, including deleokorea, Backbase, and Biting Bit.
Developers
706 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Spring Cloud.
Spring Cloud Integrations
Eureka, Zuul, Hystrix, Axon, and Pactflow are some of the popular tools that integrate with Spring Cloud. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with Spring Cloud.
Spring Cloud's Features
- Distributed/versioned configuration
- Service registration and discovery
- Routing
- Service-to-service calls
- Load balancing
- Circuit Breakers
- Global locks
- Leadership election and cluster state
- Distributed messaging
Spring Cloud Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Spring Cloud?
Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry is an open platform as a service (PaaS) that provides a choice of clouds, developer frameworks, and application services. Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy, and scale applications.
Spring Boot
Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run". We take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss. Most Spring Boot applications need very little Spring configuration.
Istio
Istio is an open platform for providing a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow across microservices, enforce policies and aggregate telemetry data. Istio's control plane provides an abstraction layer over the underlying cluster management platform, such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
Netflix OSS
It provides tools and services to get the most out of your (big) data. It also provides runtime containers, libraries and services that power microservices.