- Chapter 1 — Getting Started with Spring Boot
- Chapter 2 — Understanding Auto-Configuration
- Chapter 3 — Data Access with Spring Data JPA
- Chapter 4 — Building RESTful Web Applications
- Chapter 5 — Customizing Spring Boot
- Chapter 6 — Building Your Own Auto-Configuration and Starter
- Chapter 7 — Spring Security
- Chapter 8 — Profiles and Configuration
- Chapter 9 — Observability with Spring Boot Actuator
- Chapter 10 — Testing with Context Slices
- Chapter 11 — Packaging Spring Boot Applications
- Chapter 12 — Deployment and Production Readiness
Spring Boot - On Autopilot
Engineering Beyond the Defaults
Spring Boot makes development fast—but what is it actually doing for you? Spring Boot — On Autopilot takes you beyond annotations and recipes to understand the framework's decisions, so you know when to accept the defaults, when to tune them, and when to take control.
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Spring Boot does a remarkable amount of work for you. The real skill is knowing what it is doing — and when to take control.
Spring Boot — On Autopilot goes beyond annotations and feature-by-feature tutorials to explore how Spring Boot actually helps you build applications: the defaults it chooses, the conditions behind auto-configuration, and the points where production applications require you to tune, extend, or replace those defaults.
Using a consistent application throughout the book, you'll move from letting Spring Boot take the controls to understanding the decisions being made on your behalf — and developing the judgment to decide when those decisions are right for your application.
You'll learn how to:
- Understand Spring Boot's auto-configuration model and conditional configuration
- Configure and customize persistence with Spring Data JPA
- Build and configure RESTful web applications
- Understand and customize Spring Security
- Create your own auto-configuration and reusable Spring Boot starter
- Manage configuration across development and production environments
- Observe applications with Spring Boot Actuator
- Test applications effectively using focused test slices
- Package Spring Boot applications for distribution
- Prepare and deploy applications for production
This isn't a catalog of Spring Boot annotations. It's about developing a mental model of the framework so you can work with its conventions when they help, tune them when necessary, and take control when your application demands it.
Trademark Notice: SPRING® and SPRING BOOT® are trademarks of Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. This book is an independent publication and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or authorized by Broadcom Inc. or its subsidiaries.
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Pradeep Kumar Laxminarayana
Pradeep Kumar L. is a software architect, author, and corporate technology trainer with more than two decades of experience designing and building enterprise applications.
His work spans Java, Spring, Spring Boot, microservices, cloud-native architecture, AWS, containers, Kubernetes, DevOps, and distributed systems. Over the years, he has worked closely with developers and engineering teams, helping them move beyond framework usage toward stronger architectural judgment and clearer software design.
He is the author of Modern Java — The Mindset Shift and Spring Boot — On Autopilot.
His writing focuses on a practical idea: modern development is not about memorizing more syntax or annotations. It is about understanding the decisions your tools and frameworks make for you, expressing intent clearly, and knowing when to rely on defaults, when to tune them, and when to take control.
Through his books, he aims to help developers build not just working software, but software that is easier to understand, maintain, and evolve.
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