Java (Spring Boot, Vert.x and Microprofile) + Istio on Kubernetes/OpenShift

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There are three different and super simple microservices in this system and they are chained together in the following sequence:

customer → preference → recommendation

For now, they have a simple exception handling solution for dealing with a missing dependent service: it just returns the error message to the end-user.