Master Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud - Step 13 – Connecting Currency Conversion Microservice and API G

The video tutorial covers integrating microservices with Zipkin for distributed tracing. It explains how to add necessary dependencies to the pom.xml files of the API Gateway and currency conversion service. The tutorial demonstrates manually launching microservices and checking their status, highlighting the tedious nature of this process. It then tests and verifies the microservices by firing requests and observing them in Zipkin. The video concludes with an explanation of how microservices locate the Zipkin server using default configurations and encourages further exploration of Zipkin.

What are the two main services mentioned that need to be integrated with Zipkin?

• API Gateway

• Currency Conversion Service

• User Service

• Payment Service

What dependencies were added to the API Gateway and Currency Conversion Service?

• Sleuth

• Zipkin

• Spring Rabbit

• Eureka

What is the purpose of configuring the sampler probability in the application properties?

• To control the amount of data sent to Zipkin

• To increase application performance

• To manage user sessions

• To enable logging

What is the main challenge mentioned regarding launching microservices manually?

• It is time-consuming

• It requires advanced knowledge

• It is prone to errors

• It is not possible

What should you do if you encounter issues with the microservices after launching?

• Restart the services

• Wait for stabilization

• Check the logs

• Reconfigure the services

What is the significance of a span of five in the context of microservices?

• It indicates multiple microservices are involved

• It shows a high load

• It means the service is down

• It represents a single service call

How does the application locate the Zipkin server for distributed tracing?

• Through default configuration

• By user input

• Automatically via network

• Using a configuration file