Getting Started with Spring Boot

Spring Boot, the new convention-over-configuration framework from the Spring team at Pivotal, marries Spring's flexibility with conventional, common sense defaults to make application development not just fly, but pleasant. Join Spring Developer Advocate Josh Long for a look at what Spring Boot is, why it's turning heads, why you should consider it for your next application (i.e., REST, web, batch, big-data, and integration), and how to get started.

Presenter Bio

Josh Long (http://spring.io/team/jlong) is a Spring developer advocate at Pivotal. He is the author of five books on Spring, two best-selling Safari marketplace videos, and is a contributor to many fine Spring projects (including Spring Boot). He's on Twitter (@starbuxman (https://twitter.com/starbuxman)) and blogs at http://spring.io/blog and http://joshlong.com . Josh spends his time at the intersection of application development, big data and cloud-native, microservice-centric architectures at Pivotal.