Spring Boot: Cloud-native Anwendungen mit Java und Kotlin erstellen

by Mark Heckler

With over 75 million downloads per month, Spring Boot is the most widely used Java framework available. Its ease and power have revolutionized application development from monoliths to microservices. Yet Spring Boot's unrivaled versatility can also be a bit confusing. How do developers learn enough to be productive immediately? This practical book shows you how to use this framework to write successful mission-critical applications.

Mark Heckler from VMware, the company behind Spring, guides you through Spring Boot's architecture and approach, along with topics such as debugging, testing, and deployment. If you want to develop cloud native Java or Kotlin applications with Spring Boot rapidly and effectively--using reactive programming, building APIs, and creating database access of all kinds--this book is for you.


Learn how Spring Boot simplifies cloud native application development and deployment
Build reactive applications and extend communication across the network boundary to create distributed systems
Understand how Spring Boot's architecture and developer-first opinions increase developer productivity and application portability
Deploy Spring Boot applications for production workloads rapidly and reliably
Monitor application and system health for optimal performance and reliability
Debug, test, and secure cloud-based applications painlessly

Genres: Programming, Technology, Computer Science, Technical, Software, Nonfiction

Paperback

Published October 21, 2021

Reviews

[Sinclair · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book should be named "Spring Boot: Down and Crashing."
After Ch. 6, the code is not runnable due to the "planefinder" API server. The author thinks that readers can obtain the data from a proprietary data-selling company, but he didn't even bother to tell the readers how to get them.

[Lars · Rating 2 out of 5]

Disappointing piece of work

Trivial repeating sample use cases, that doesn’t even show how to handle JPA relations and complex queries. You can find better info in the Spring Boot doc and on the Baeldung site.

[Luboš · Rating 1 out of 5]

I am very disappointed. I expected much more since it is published by O'Reilly and was promoted on Spring blog. I finished only because it was a gift. When you are already working with Spring, you learn too little. When you are a beginner, you may be overwhelmed (by related concepts) I guess.
So waste of many and time.

[Amarildo · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book primarily introduces the various features of Spring Boot, providing a broad overview. However, it's worth noting that it doesn't delve deeply into any specific chapter. This approach is beneficial for those seeking a general understanding of Spring Boot's capabilities but may not fully satisfy those looking for in-depth insights or guidance on handling complex challenges.

This limitation is particularly evident and somewhat frustrating in the chapters on testing and reactive programming, both essential topics. While these chapters offer vital information, they leave the reader feeling like they have only scratched the surface of these topics.

[David LJ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice quick intro to Spring Boot straight to the point with many concepts introduced pragmatically. I didn't like the extra unneeded verbose code. Like two pages of getters/setters or accessors and mutators. Despite the intention to make visual how verbose Java can be, I think it could have also been said with 17 getters and setters. Or showing the API results over and over. If there's nothing new, why show them instead of referring to them? I missed topics such as logging. And maybe some extra depth in Spring Security. Or some database migration tooling. Overall, nice first introduction to Spring Boot.

[Fady · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mark covers a big ground. He scratches the surface on some parts and dips the toes in others. The code examples are well done and explained. As of the time of this review, all of it work with close to no extra work.

Recommended for everyone who want to start with Spring Boot or also to get more insight of what Spring Boot has to offer. Of course Mark doesn't cover everything. That will require volumes, but it is a very good start.

[jacques tree cartesian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Been using this as a additional info to learn about spring boot while learning by doing by myself. The information in this book really makes sense to what am i doing and it supports me.

Its cover the thing from the very basic spring init, rest api annotation, connect db, testing, security, deploy until reactive programming that i aint understand it yet.

So far so good cause i need additional info besides only doing with spring boot and this books well covered.

[Adam Szatyin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good for Spring newcomers but if you work with spring for 1-2 years than there is minimal new information.

[Sneha Nathani · Rating 4 out of 5]

java 11, microservices, and rest apis and domain driven development.

[Josh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Das Buch "Spring Boot: Cloud-native Anwendungen mit Java und Kotlin erstellen" gibt dem Leser einen Einblick in eine der beliebtesten und weitverbreitetsten Java-Bibliotheken für moderne Webanwendungen. Das Buch hat, ganz nach O'Reilly-Manier, einen hochwertigen Druck, gelungene Grafiken und allgemein einen hohen Qualitätsgrad. Im Folgenden möchte ich ein paar positive, aber auch negative Anmerkungen geben.

Pro:
- Das Buch deckt die meisten grundlegenden Aspekte von Spring Boot und modernen Webanwendungen ab.
- Es werden interessante Einblicke in das reaktive Programmierparadigma gegeben, das ich als spannend und als ein Werkzeug im Toolkit des modernen Software Engineers betrachte.
- Der Schreibtstil ist angenehm. Die Übersetzung ist gelungen.

Contra:
- An einigen Stellen wiederholt sich das Buch zu oft; es ist oft zu redundant. Es werden z. B. grundlegende Techniken für DB-Zugriffe gezeigt, dann aber auf den nächsten Seiten explizite Beispiele für die meisten gängigen Datenbanken gegeben. Dieser Abschnitt zieht sich.
- An anderen Stellen werden Themen zu oberflächlich oder nicht spezifisch genug behandelt.
- Der Autor verliert sich oft in Implementierungsdetails. Viele Seiten zeigen den einfachsten Code in voller Länge. Oftmals wird der gesamte Code erneut abgebildet, obwohl nur wenige Zeilen angepasst wurden. Die Ausgaben werden oft in voller Länge gezeigt, darunter sieben Seiten Stacktrace in Kapitel 12. Es wirkt, als würde das Buch künstlich gestreckt werden.
- Der Titel deutet darauf hin, dass sich das Buch ausführlich mit Cloud-nativer Entwicklung befasst. Das beschränkt sich jedoch lediglich auf 9 Seiten gegen Ende des Buchs.

Für Einsteiger kann das Buch durchaus hilfreich sein. Für erfahrene Entwickler hat es wahrscheinlich aber wenig Mehrwert.