Some days ago, Spring Cloud announced support for several Alibaba components used for building microservices-based architecture. The project is still in the incubation stage, but there is a plan for graduating it from incubation to officially join a Spring Cloud Release Train in 2019. The currently released version 0.0.2.RELEASE is compatible with Spring Boot 2, while the older version 0.0.1.RELEASE is compatible with Spring Boot 1.x. This project seems to be very interesting, and currently, it is the most popular repository amongst Spring Cloud Incubator repositories (around 1.5k likes on GitHub). Currently, the most commonly used Spring Cloud project for building microservices architecture is Spring Cloud Netflix. As you probably know, this project provides Netflix OSS integrations for Spring Boot apps, including service discovery (Eureka), circuit breaker (Hystrix), intelligent routing (Zuul) and client-side load balancing (Ribbon). The first question that came to my mind when I was reading about Spring Cloud Alibaba was: "Can Spring Cloud Alibaba be an alternative for Spring Cloud Netflix?" The answer is yes, but not entirely.


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