In the shoes of the consumer: do you really need to provide the client libraries for your APIs?

The beauty of the RESTful web services and APIs is that any consumer which speaks HTTP protocol will be able…

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Spring Cloud support for Hystrix

Spring Cloud project provides comprehensive support for Netflix OSS Hystrix library. I have previously written about how to use the…

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Gentle Introduction to Hystrix – Wrapup

This is a follow up to two other posts – Motivation for why something like Hystrix is needed in a…

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Gentle Introduction to Hystrix – Hello World

In a previous blog post I had covered the motivation for needing a library like Netflix Hystrix. Here I will…

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Gentle Introduction to Hystrix

In the last few days I have been exploring the Netflix Hystrix library and have come to appreciate the features…

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Storing months of historical metrics from Hystrix in Graphite

One of the killer-features of Hystrix is a low-latency, data-intensive and beautiful dashboard:              …

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Batching (collapsing) requests in Hystrix

Hystrix has an advanced feature of collapsing (or batching) requests. If two or more commands run similar request at the…

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Defend your Application with Hystrix

In previous post http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2014/07/rxjava-java8-java-ee-7-arquillian-bliss.html we talked about microservices and how to orchestrate them using Reactive Extensions using (RxJava). But what’s happen…

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