Craig Walls

Spring Boot: From zero to production in 90 minutes

9:00 AM MDT

In this example-driven presentation, we'll start with an empty directory and have an application (simple as it may be) running in a production environment, leveraging Spring and Spring Boot.

Spring Boot's primary purpose is to make Spring easier to work with. It achieves this in three ways:

Automatic configuration : Considering what's on the runtime classpath as well as other factors, Spring Boot can automatically configure components in a Spring application context.
Simplified dependency management : Taking advantage of transitive dependency resolution at build-time, Spring Boot offers several “starter” dependencies, focused on specific characteristics of an application, that transitively bring in libraries to enable development of those characteristics.
Runtime insight : Spring Boot offers insight into the inner workings of a running application via REST endpoints and/or JMX MBeans to better understand what makes a running application tick.
All together, Spring Boot lets you focus on fulfilling your application's requirements without worrying about writing code that satisfies the needs of a framework.

Reactive Spring: End-to-End

11:00 AM MDT

In this example-driven session, we'll build a complete (albeit simple) Spring application, leveraging Spring's support for reactive programming at all levels, from the database to the client.

Traditionally, applications have been built using a blocking, synchronous model. Although comfortable and intuitive for most programmers, this model doesn't scale well. And although there are several new approaches to reactive programming, they don't necessarily fit into the familiar programming model that Spring developers are accustomed to working with.

Spring 5 has introduced a set of new reactive features, enabling non-blocking, asynchronous code that scales well using minimal threads. Moreover, it builds on the same concepts and programming models that Spring developers have used for years.

Spring Boot: Application management with Actuator

1:00 PM MDT

In this session, we'll explore the Spring Boot Actuator, a runtime component of Spring Boot that lets you peer inside a running application and, in some cases, even tweak configuration on the fly. We'll look at many of the Actuator's endpoints, learn how to customize and even create new endpoints, and see how to expose Actuator metrics to several popular instrumentation and monitoring systems.

Spring Boot makes developing applications with Spring easy work by offering auto-configuration for many common application scenarios. And with Spring Boot's starter dependencies, even an application's build file can be easily managed. But Spring Boot's powers don't end when the application is deployed. That's where the real fun begins.

Extreme Spring Testing

3:00 PM MDT

In this session, we'll look at various ways that the latest features of Spring and Spring Boot can help with testing the tough-to-test portions of an application.

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