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I got a chance to review the upcoming Cloud Native Spring in Action book by Thomas Vitale and here my review of the book. TLDR: If you know the basics of SpringBoot and want to master the advanced concepts and also understand what “Cloud Native” means and how to build & deploy production grade SpringBoot applications on Kubernetes then this is the book you are looking for. Longer version: There are many books on SpringBoot that are aimed towards complete beginners to intermediate skilled developers.

In Java world, JPA/Hibernate is the most popular and widely used framework. When it comes to overall performance of a software system database persistence layer plays the crucial role. The tricky part with JPA/Hibernate is it is very easy to get started but very very hard to master. This is where Vlad Mihalcea‘s High-Performance Java Persistence book helps you a lot. The High-Performance Java Persistence book is not just another Hibernate book saying you put this annotation here and call that method there and you are done.

I am happy to announce that my new book SpringBoot : Learn By Example got published today on Leanpub. What is SpringBoot? Spring is one of the most popular Java frameworks out there to build web and enterprise application. Spring supports variety of configuration approaches (XML, Annotations, JavaConfig etc) and properly configuring Spring applications become a bit tedious and repetitive process. To avoid these problems Spring team introduced SpringBoot to address the complexity of configuring Spring application.