📖 Learning Path: Spring Boot & Microservices

Curated path for learning Spring Boot & Microservices based on published videos in TechPrimers.

💡Each link points to a separate Youtube video, the code samples and relevant links/videos are available in the description of each video.

Spring Boot & Microservices

1️⃣ Basics

2️⃣ Deep Dive

• MVC and JPA
• Hibernate JPA
• Enterprise Grade
• Debugging
• Monitoring
• Documentation
• Spring Boot: Best and Worst

3️⃣ Security

4️⃣ Integration

• MySQL
• MyBatis and MySQL
• Spring Batch
• Spring Integration
• Spring Reactive with MongoDB
• Spring Cloud Gateway
• Transactionality
• Elastic Search
• ActiveMQ
• Kafka
• Redis
• Aerospike
• GraphQL
• Neo4J

5️⃣ Microservices

• Load Balancing
• Resiliency
• Fault Tolerance
• Architecture Patterns
• Observability
• Chaos Engineering
• Service Mesh
• End-to-End examples

6️⃣ Testing

7️⃣ Runtime

• Docker
• Pivotal Cloud Foundry
• Amazon Web Services
• Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes
• Azure

8️⃣ Official Documentations

Basics

• What is Spring Boot?
• What is Spring Cloud?
• What is Cloud Native?
• What is Netflix OSS?
• Spring Native

Deep Dive

MVC and JPA

• REST Basics
• How to create and run a Spring Boot
• Spring JPA with POST example
• How does Spring MVC work?
• Spring Data REST and JPA
• Spring Data JPA with Hibernate and MySQL

Hibernate JPA

• One-to-One Mapping using Spring JPA in Hibernate example
• One-to-Many Mapping using Spring JPA in Hibernate example
• Many-to-One Mapping using Spring JPA in Hibernate example

Enterprise grade

• Properties vs YAML
• Profiles in Spring Boot example
• Running Spring Boot App as HTTPS
• Lazy Initialization in Spring Boot with example
• Graceful Shutodown in Spring Boot with example
• What are WebSockets?
• Spring Boot using WebSockets example
• Spring Cache using EhCache example
• Spring Boot using SOAP Web Services
• Spring Boot using Kotlin

Debugging

• Remote Debugging using IntelliJ
• Live-reload of Spring Boot App using Spring Dev Tools

Monitoring

• Actuators in Spring Boot example
• What is Micrometer?
• Spring Boot with Micrometer and Prometheus example

Documentation

• API First Desgin | Open API Specification
• REST API Documentation (Swagger2) example
• Spring Boot with HATEOS and REST with example

Spring Boot: Best and Worst

• Spring Boot: Best and Worst - my take
• 15 Spring Boot Best practices to create a production grade microservices

Security

• Spring Security in Spring Boot with example
• Spring Security using Authentication & Authorization from MySQL example
• Spring Security using LDAP example
• What is JWT?
• Spring Security using JWT example
• Security Essentials for OpenID Connect & OAuth2
• What is OAuth2?
• Spring Security using OAuth2 example
• Spring Security using OAuth2 with MySQL example
• Spring Security OAuth2 using Facebook in Spring Boot
• OAuth vs JWT

Integration

MySQL

• Spring Boot with MySQL using JPA example

Mybatis and MySQL

• Spring Boot with Mybatis and MySQL example #1
• Spring Boot with Mybatis and MySQL example #2

Spring Batch

• What is Spring Batch?
• Spring Boot with Spring Batch example

Spring Integration

• Spring Integration with Spring Boot (File adapter) example

Spring Reactive with MongoDB

• What is MongoDB with example
• Spring Reactive Mongo with WebFlux example #1
• Spring Reactive Mongo with WebFlux example #2
• Spring Reactive Mongo with WebFlux example #3

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Spring Cloud Gateway with Hystrix example

Transactionality

• Transactionality in Spring Boot example

Elastic Search

• Spring Boot with Elastic Search example #1
• Spring Boot with Elastic Search example #2
• Spring Boot with Elastic Search example #3
• Spring Boot with Elastic Search example #4
• Accessing Standalone Elastic Search from a Spring App using Create, Update and Delete Index Example
• Spring Boot with MongoDB example

ActiveMQ

• Spring Boot with InMemory ActiveMQ example
• Spring Boot with Standalone ActiveMQ example

Kafka

• What is Apache Kafka?
• Spring Boot with Kafka Producer example
• Spring Boot with Kafka Consumer example
• Spring Cloud Kafka Streams Microservices example

Redis

• What is Redis?
• Spring Boot with Spring Data Redis example

Aerospike

• What is Aerospike?
• Spring Boot with Aerospike example

GraphQL

• What is GraphQL?
• Spring Boot with GraphQL example
• REST vs GraphQL - When to choose one over other?

Neo4J

• What is Graph Database?
• Spring Boot with Neo4J example

Microservices

Load Balancing

• What is Load Balancing?
• What is Client Side Load balancing?
• What is Server Side Load balancing?

Resiliency

• How to design Highly Available Architecture?
• What is Blue/Green Deployment?

Fault Tolerance

• What is Hystrix with example
• Hystrix Dashboard with Spring Boot example

Architecture Patterns

• What is API Gateway? | Swiggy Imaginary Architecture
• What is Service Registry?
• What is Reactive Programming?
• Microservices Communication
• How to design Microservices Architecture? Uber case study
• SAGA Architecture
• Serverless in 2020
• Food Store System design using various Cloud Platforms
• What is Event Driven Architecture?
• Strangler Application Pattern - eCommerce case study

Observability

• What is Spring Cloud Sleuth? (Distributed Log tracing)
• Distributed Log tracing using Spring Cloud Sleuth example
• Microservices & Kubernetes Observability
• Microservices & Kubernetes Observability Demo

Chaos Engineering

• What is Chaos Engineering?
• Chaos Experiments using ChaosToolkit and ChaosMonkey for Spring Boot

Service Mesh

• What is Service Mesh? Why do we need Service Mesh?
• Linkerd Service mesh with Spring Boot example
• Istio Architecture

End-to-End examples

• Designing Microservices using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Eureka and Zuul #1
• Designing Microservices using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Eureka and Zuul #2
• Spring Cloud Config Server with example
• Spring Cloud Eureka example
• Spring Cloud Eureka and Hystrix
• Spring Cloud Eureka, Hystrix and Zuul
• Spring Cloud Kafka Streams Microservices example

Testing

• What is TDD?
• Writing JUnit Tests for RestController using MockMvc and Mockito
• Writing Mock Service in RestController and JUnits for POST with MockMvc
• Unit & Integration Tests in Spring Boot example
• What is BDD (Cucumber example)?

Runtime

Docker

• Container/Docker Basics
• Create Docker image from Spring Boot App example
• Multi Stage Docker builds
• Spring Boot and MySQL in Docker example

Pivotal Cloud Foundry

• What is Cloud Foundry?
• Deploying a Spring Boot App in Cloud Foundry
• Blue Green Deployment in Cloud Foundry

Amazon Web Services

• What is AWS?
• How to create EC2 instance in AWS?
• Running Spring Boot App on EC2 using S3 example
• Spring Cloud Function example
• Spring Cloud Function on AWS Lambda

Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes

• GCP Console tour
• What is Kubernetes?
• Kubernetes Architecture
• Kubernetes Architecture - Service & Deployment
• Deploying Spring Boot on Kubernetes
• Kubernetes YML Generator with Usage for Deployment and Service
• Deployment Strategies in Kubernetes #1
• Blue Green Deployment | Deployment Strategies in Kubernetes #2
• Canary Deployment | Deployment Strategies in Kubernetes #3
• Readiness & Liveness Probes | Robust and resilient app in Spring Boot Kubernetes
• Spring Cloud Kubernetes with ConfigMaps
• Spring Cloud Kubernetes with Discovery Client
• Remote Debugging in Kubernetes
• Kubernetes Secrets with Spring Boot example

Azure

• Getting started with Azure Kubernetes Service with Spring Boot

Official Documentations

• Spring Boot
• Spring Cloud
• Microservices
• AWS Docs
• Kubernetes Docs

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