This comprehensive Spring Boot skill path progresses from implementing advanced product search functionality to building real-time dashboards with WebFlux, designing resilient asynchronous order processors with proper error handling, and implementing custom metrics for performance monitoring. Each chapter builds upon core Spring Boot concepts, culminating in a knowledge assessment that validates your mastery of these enterprise-ready development skills.
Skill objectives
Chapter 01
Enhance product searches with advanced filtering and sorting
In this chapter you'll discover how Spring Boot handles complex queries that clients demand: multiple filters, dynamic sorting, and combined searches. You'll learn Spring Data naming conventions (findByXxxOrderByYyy) and how to translate business requirements into efficient repository methods. These skills will enable you to build sophisticated search APIs without writing manual SQL.
Design an async order processor, ensuring correct routing and error handling
In this chapter you'll learn asynchronous patterns fundamental for scalable systems: message queues, content-based routing, and error handling with retry. You'll discover how Spring Boot manages async processing, essential for e-commerce, banking systems, and any architecture that must handle traffic spikes.
In this chapter, you'll discover how to create custom metrics that reflect your application's business health, not just technical health. You'll learn to expose data that DevOps teams will use for dashboards, alerting, and troubleshooting. These skills are critical for maintaining SLAs and preventing production issues.
This chapter is to test your skill on Java Spring Boot. You'll build an order processing pipeline that demonstrates your mastery of: efficient data queries, event-driven updates, and production monitoring.