Spring, Start Here • Laurentiu Spilca & Mark Heckler • GOTO 2022

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. #GOTOcon #GOTObookclub Laurenţiu Spilcă - Author of “Spring, Start Here“ and Group Java Community Lead at Endava Mark Heckler - Author of “Spring Boot: Up and Running“ and Principal Cloud Advocate, Java/JVM Languages at Microsoft DESCRIPTION Once you get started with Spring Boot, you never look back. Join Laurentiu Spilca, author of “Spring, Start Here,” and Mark Heckler, author of “Spring Boot: Up and Running,” as they explore their journey with Spring Boot and how it’s changed the way they develop software. This discussion’s starting point is Laurentiu’s book that introduces newbies to this framework. The interview is based on Laurentiu’s book “Spring, Star Here“: TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 03:33 Why a book on Spring Boot? 14:45 Getting started with Spring Boot 19:37 Spring Boot’s focus on deployability 25:45 Advantages of Spring Boot: What is an actuator? 34:52 Data sources in Spring Boot 44:37 Testing in