Spring Cloud or Spring Boot? what is right spring project for developing Biz API's?

Question

We are trying to build a new Business API layer in between UI and applications/services.

Which project in spring is best and will serve the needs for developing Biz Api's with restful services?

Is it Spring Cloud or Spring Boot?

Answer 1

Spring Boot is app-centric. As @kryger said, Spring Cloud builds on boot. It solves higher level problems, such as:

• Distributed configuration: How to configure every instance of all of your services (standard boot config files checked into git or svn and distributed via config server).
• Service registration and discovery: how to locate a specific instance of a service (using Netflix Eureka)
• Client Side load balancing: intelligently choose an instance of a service to use (using Netflix Ribbon) via a smart algorithm such as: round robin or response time
• Plug into Ribbon via Spring Rest Template or Netflix Feign.
• Serve all assets and api's via a proxy that is plugged into service discovery and load balancing (Netflix Zuul).
• Stop cascading api failures with the Circuit Breaker pattern via Netflix Hystrix and visualize the health of all circuits with the Hystrix Dashboard.
• Send commands to all or some services via a lightweight message bus.
• Use oauth2 to protect resources
• and other things I've probably forgotten.