Pro Spring Boot 4
An Authoritative Guide with Best Practices
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.
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