Hi John,

I note that the first time I call say the license microservice via postman, I get a zuul timeout. Second time onward is fine.

I expect that
a) from debugging that the service has not "fully booted" initially and
b)experimenting with Hystrix timeouts will not help, as they only come into play, once the MS has "fully booted".

If my logic is correct, is there any way to "fully boot" the service on startup?

Regards,
Kevin

I believe what you are looking for is this property:

spring.mvc.servlet.load-on-startup=-1 # Load on startup priority of the Spring Web Services servlet

Set it to a positive number.

Thanks very much re servlet setting. You answered my question . My problem remains however, so I will repost a more specific message ... thanks again ....