Say goodbye to scattered tutorials and endless fluff. This course gives you a clear, structured path with bite-sized videos that blend theory and hands-on practice.

About the Course

Spring Boot is the go-to framework for modern Java development. Whether you’re building web applications, microservices, or enterprise applications, Spring Boot simplifies the process by handling configuration, dependency management, and embedded servers—allowing you to build and deploy applications quickly.

Mastering Spring Boot isn’t just about writing better code—it’s also a great career move. Companies are actively hiring Spring Boot developers, with salaries ranging from $164K to $306K per year and a median of $219K, according to Glassdoor.

This course is the first part of a series designed to take you from zero to mastering Spring Boot. In this part, we focus on the fundamentals, ensuring you have a rock-solid understanding before moving on to building web applications and APIs in Part 2.

This isn’t just another Spring Boot course—it’s a clear, concise, and no-nonsense course that gets straight to the point. Every lesson is carefully structured to build on what you’ve learned, with real-world examples, best practices, and tips that most courses don’t cover.

If you’re looking for a well-organized, practical, and fluff-free Spring Boot course that gives you the skills to build real applications, this is the course for you!

What You'll Learn

• Understand how Spring Boot manages objects and dependencies.
• Connect your application to a relational database.
• Manage application configuration using application.properties and YAML files.
• Use Spring Data repositories to interact with the database.
• Database-first vs. model-first workflows and when to use each approach.
• How Hibernate tracks entities and how transactions ensure data consistency.
• Optimize fetching strategies with eager and lazy loading to improve performance.
• Write custom queries with @Query, JPQL, and native SQL.
• Use projections to fetch only the necessary fields, reducing data load.
• Build dynamic queries with Query by Example, Criteria API, and Specifications API.
• Implement sorting and pagination to efficiently handle large datasets.
• Use Lombok to reduce boilerplate code and simplify entity classes.
• Leverage productivity tools to quickly generate entities, repositories, and queries.

Apply best practices to structure your application and optimize performance.

Who Is This For?

• Java developers who want to master Spring Boot from the ground up.

Spring Boot developers who want to strengthen their fundamentals and fill in knowledge gaps.

Prerequisites

To take this course, you need a solid understanding of Java and object-oriented programming, working with classes, interfaces, generics and lambdas.

You also need basic knowledge of relational databases and SQL. You should be familiar with concepts like tables, primary and foreign keys, and basic SQL queries.

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