Spring Boot for building RESTful microservices

Spring Boot is a utility framework from the Spring team for bootstrapping Spring-based applications and microservices quickly and easily. The framework uses an opinionated approach over configurations for decision making, thereby reducing the effort required on writing a lot of boilerplate code and configurations. Using the 80-20 principle, developers should be able to kick start a variety of Spring applications with many default values. Spring Boot further presents opportunities to the developers for customizing applications by overriding auto-configured values.

Spring Boot not only increases the speed of development, but also provides a set of production-ready ops features such as health checks and metrics collections. Since Spring Boot masks many configuration parameters and abstracts many lower level implementations, it minimizes the chances of errors to a certain extent. Spring Boot recognizes the nature of the application based on the libraries...