Spring Boot in Practice by Somnath Musib

Go beyond the basics with Spring Boot! This practical guide presents dozens of relevant scenarios in a convenient problem-solution-discussion format.
In Spring Boot in Practice you will learn:
Spring Boot’s features from an expert’s perspective
Configuring, logging, and monitoring Spring Boot applications
Effective methods for database communication
Utilizing Spring Security and securing your Spring application in production
Designing and developing microservices and RESTful APIs with Spring Boot
Microservice versioning, documentation, and security
Reactive application development and reactive data access with WebSocket and RSocket
Deploying Spring Boot applications on Kubernetes and major cloud platforms
Implementing containerization in a Spring Boot application
Using Spring Boot with Kotlin and GraalVM
Spring Boot in Practice is full of practical recipes for common development problems in Spring Boot. Author Somnath Musib has spent years building applications with Spring, and he shares that extensive experience in this focused guide. You’ll master techniques for using Spring Data, Spring Security, and other Spring-centric solutions. Learn how to work with Spring Boot and Kotlin, handling connections for multiple platforms, and how Spring Boot can simplify building microservices and APIs. Each recipe is built around a real-world problem, complete with a full solution and thoughtful discussion.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the technology
With Spring Boot, it’s a snap to create standalone Spring applications that require minimal manual setup. Spring Boot directly embeds a server like Tomcat or Jetty into your project and preconfigures core Spring settings, third-party libraries, security, and other key elements. It’s a big framework, with lots of powerful features. This book provides a rich collection of techniques to help you get the most out of Spring Boot.
About the book
Spring Boot in Practice is a cookbook-style guide to Spring application development. Following a convenient Problem-Solution-Discussion format, it takes you technique-by-technique through Spring Boot fundamentals. You’ll dive deep into auto-configuration, security, microservices, and more. Along the way, you’ll also discover numerous advanced and hidden features. All the book’s source code is open source, so you can integrate the detailed samples into your own projects.
What’s inside
Instantly useful techniques with reusable source code
Configuring, logging, and monitoring Spring Boot applications
Effective methods for database communication
Securing Spring applications in production
Microservices and RESTful APIs
About the reader
For Spring Boot beginners with some Spring experience.
About the author
Somnath Musib has over a decade of development experience, and has been actively working with Spring Boot since 2015.
Table of Contents
PART 1
1 Booting Spring Boot
PART 2
2 Common Spring Boot tasks
3 Database access with Spring Data
4 Spring Boot: Autoconfiguration and Actuator
5 Securing Spring Boot applications
6 Implementing additional security with Spring Security
7 Developing RESTful Web services with Spring Boot
PART 3
8 Reactive Spring Boot application development
PART 4
9 Deploying Spring Boot applications
PART 5
10 Spring Boot with Kotlin, Native Image, and GraphQL