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Quickly and productively develop complex Spring applications and microservices - out of the box - with minimal fuss on things like configurations. This book will show you how to fully leverage the Spring Boot productivity suite of tools and how to apply them through the use of case studies.

Pro Spring Boot is your authoritative hands-on practical guide for increasing your Spring Framework-based enterprise Java and cloud application productivity while decreasing development time using the Spring Boot productivity suite of tools. It´s a no nonsense guide with case studies of increasing complexity throughout the book. This book is written by Felipe Gutierrez, a Spring expert consultant who works with Pivotal, the company behind the popular Spring Framework.

What You Will Learn

Write your first Spring Boot application

Configure Spring Boot

Use the Spring Boot Actuator

Carry out web development with Spring Boot

Build microservices with Spring Boot

Handle databases and messaging with Spring Boot

Test and deploy with Spring Boot

Extend Spring Boot and its available plug-ins

Who This Book Is For

Experienced Spring and Java developers seeking increased productivity gains and decreased complexity and development time in their applications and software services.

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1. Introduction to Spring Boot

2. Your First Spring Boot application

3. Spring Boot Configuration

4. Introduction to Spring Boot Actuator

5. Spring Boot CLI

6. Web Development with Spring Boot

7. Databases & Data Access with Spring Boot

8. Building Microservices with Spring Boot

9. Messaging with Spring Boot

10. Testing with Spring Boot

11. Deploying Spring Boot

12. More on Spring Boot Actuator

13. Extending Spring Boot

14. Maven and Gradle Plug-ins

15. Other Spring Boot Plug-ins

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Felipe Gutierrez is a software architect, with a bachelors and masters degree in computer science from Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Campus Ciudad de Mexico. He has over 20 years of IT experience, during which time he developed programs for companies in multiple vertical industries, such as government, retail, healthcare, education, and banking. Right now, he is working as a senior consultant for EMC/Pivotal, specializing in the Spring Framework, Groovy, and RabbitMQ, among other technologies. He works as a consultant for big companies such as Nokia, Apple, Redbox, and Qualcomm, among others.

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