Chapter 3: Introducing the IBM Stock Trader Cloud-Native Application

Throughout this book, we'll be using an example application known as IBM Stock Trader to demonstrate various concepts and techniques. This open source example is intended to show people how to develop, deploy, and use a typical cloud-native application that is composed of various microservices and leverages various external services such as databases, messaging systems, and internet services. All microservices are containerized and deployed (via an operator) to a Kubernetes cluster such as the OpenShift Container Platform.

As the name implies, the IBM Stock Trader example exists in the financial domain, simulating a brokerage application that tracks the stocks each customer ...

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