Spring Boot REST Tutorial Spring Boot makes it easier to build Spring based applications by focusing on convention over configuration.  Following standard Spring Boot conventions we can minimise the configuration required to get an application up and running. The use of an embedded Servlet container allows us to package the application as an executable JAR and simply invoke it on the command line to launch the application. One of my favourite things about Boot is its emphasis on production readiness. Out of the box it provides a number of key non functional features, such as metrics, health checks and externalised configuration. In the past these [...]