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From: Maciej Szarlinski <mszarlinski@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 16:28:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Updated README - intro

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 # Distributed version of the Spring PetClinic Sample Application built with Spring Cloud [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/spring-petclinic/spring-petclinic-microservices.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/spring-petclinic/spring-petclinic-microservices/)
 
+This microservices branch was initially derived from [AngularJS version](https://github.com/spring-petclinic/spring-petclinic-angular1) to demonstrate how to split sample Spring application into [microservices](http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html). To achieve that goal we used [Spring Cloud Netflix](https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-netflix) technology stack.
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 ## Starting services locally
 Every microservice is a Spring Boot application and can be started locally using IDE or `mvn spring-boot:run` command. Please note that supporting services (Config and Discovery Server) must be started before any other application (Customers, Vets, Visits and API).
 If everything goes well, you can access the following services at given location:
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