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Pro Spring Boot 4

An Authoritative Guide with Best Practices

By Felipe Gutierrez and DaShaun Carter

A practical, authoritative guide to building modern web, cloud, enterprise, and AI-powered applications with Spring Boot 4.

Publisher
Apress
Edition
Fourth
Published
2026
Length
539 pages

What this book helps you build

Spring Boot makes it easier to get started. This book helps you go further: from the framework’s internals to the decisions involved in testing, securing, observing, deploying, and evolving production applications.

Felipe and I bring experience from enterprise software, developer advocacy, cloud platforms, distributed data, and the Spring community to examples designed for working developers.

Who it’s for

Experienced Spring developers
Deepen your understanding of Spring Boot 4 and the systems surrounding production applications.
Java teams modernizing applications
Navigate security, data access, observability, native compilation, cloud patterns, and framework upgrades.
Technical leads and architects
Build shared context around current Spring practices and the tradeoffs behind them.

Inside the fourth edition

  • Spring Boot internals and features
  • Web development
  • JDBC, JdbcClient, JPA, and NoSQL
  • Distributed SQL with CockroachDB
  • Reactive applications
  • Advanced testing
  • Spring Security
  • Messaging and RSocket
  • Actuator and OpenTelemetry
  • GraalVM native compilation
  • Spring Cloud microservices
  • Spring AI applications and agents
  • Custom starters
  • What’s new in Spring Boot 4

The conversation continues

Spring Office Hours, Season 5 Episode 21. Felipe Gutierrez joins us to talk about Pro Spring Boot 4, the fourth edition, and what experienced Spring developers will find inside.

Watch on YouTube