You're reading from Spring Boot 3.0 Cookbook Proven recipes for building modern and robust Java web applications with Spring Boot

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835089491

Length 426 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Spring

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Mr. Felip Miguel Puig

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Web Applications and Microservices FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Building RESTful APIs

3. Chapter 2: Securing Spring Boot Applications with OAuth2

4. Chapter 3: Observability, Monitoring, and Application Management

5. Chapter 4: Spring Cloud

6. Part 2: Database Technologies

7. Chapter 5: Data Persistence and Relational Database Integration with Spring Data

8. Chapter 6: Data Persistence and NoSQL Database Integration with Spring Data

9. Part 3: Application Optimization

10. Chapter 7: Finding Bottlenecks and Optimizing Your Application

11. Chapter 8: Spring Reactive and Spring Cloud Stream

12. Part 4: Upgrading to Spring Boot 3 from Previous Versions

13. Chapter 9: Upgrading from Spring Boot 2.x to Spring Boot 3.0

14. Index

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Once you have installed Docker, you can run a single instance of MongoDB or execute a cluster running in a replica set. Here, you will deploy a cluster running in a replica set. This is not necessary for this recipe but will be necessary for the following...