International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research

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Microservices with Spring Boot: Patterns and Anti-Patterns

Author(s) Sasikanth Mamidi
Country United States
Abstract Microservices have become a foundational architectural style for building scalable, resilient, and independently deployable enterprise systems. Spring Boot significantly accelerates the adoption of microservices by providing opinionated configuration, embedded servers, streamlined dependency management, and seamless integration with Spring Cloud for service discovery, routing, configuration, and resilience. Despite these advantages, microservice environments often degrade in quality when architectural patterns are ignored and anti-patterns emerge, such as improper service decomposition, excessive synchronous communication, and shared persistence layers. These issues create tightly coupled distributed monoliths that undermine agility and scalability. This paper analyzes the essential patterns and anti-patterns for designing effective Spring Boot microservices, supported by implementation strategies, architectural diagrams, and a real-world case study in retail-fuel transactions. The goal is to help practitioners build highly observable, fault-tolerant, maintainable systems while avoiding common pitfalls encountered during microservice modernization programs.
Keywords Microservices, Spring Boot, distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, resilience patterns, anti-patterns, domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, observability, scalability.
Field Engineering
Published In Volume 8, Issue 1, January-February 2026
Published On 2026-01-28
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i01.67514

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