Chapter 3. Creating a Base Microservice and Interface

Now the fun begins. We've gotten all the details out of the way, threw a whole bunch of new terms at you, and now we're ready to get to the code. In this chapter, we are going to:

• Create a base microservice that will hold the common functionality that all our microservices can inherit
• This project by all other microservices
• It will supply the interface from which all projects inherit

I will give a note of warning to everyone up front. Even though the purpose (one of the purposes) of a base class is to abstract common details and functionality, for the sake of clarity and understanding in each chapter, I am redundantly showing code that might be included in our base class as it was a part of the microservice itself, and, in some cases, it will be. I would rather provide a basis for you to quickly move forward with your own ecosystem and that means more clarity in the code for the sake of brevity, or just showing how little code we could use...