Bootiful Spring Boot 4

​Abstract

​Spring Boot 4.x and Java 25 have arrived, making it an exciting time to be a Java developer! Join me, Josh Long (@starbuxman), as we dive into the future of Spring Boot with Java 25. We'll learn how to scale your applications and codebases effortlessly and explore the robust Spring Boot ecosystem, featuring AI, modularity, seamless data access, security, and cutting-edge production optimizations such as Project Loom's virtual threads, GraalVM, AppCDS, and more.

​Let's explore the latest-and-greatest in Spring Boot to build faster, more scalable, more efficient, more modular, more secure, and more intelligent systems and services.

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​Speaker - Josh Long

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​Josh (@starbuxman) has been the first Spring Developer Advocate since 2010. Josh is a Java Champion, author of 7 books (including "Reactive Spring") and numerous best-selling video training (including "Building Microservices with Spring Boot Livelessons" with Spring Boot co-founder Phil Webb), and an open-source contributor (Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Axon, Spring Cloud, Activiti, Vaadin, etc), a Youtuber (Coffee + Software with Josh Long as well as my Spring Tips series ), and a podcaster ("A Bootiful Podcast").

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