Next-Generation Cloud Native Apps with Spring Boot 3

The recent release of Spring Boot 3 and Spring Framework 6 laid the foundation for the next generation of modern Java applications. This session will highlight what’s new, and demonstrate patterns and techniques for cloud-native development.

Support for generating native images with GraalVM is now part of the core framework, making it straightforward to build efficient applications with instant startup time and reduced memory consumption. The new Java 17 baseline and support for Jakarta EE 10 unlocks many new features and integrations. Observability is now a core tenet of the Spring ecosystem, with monitoring and tracing built into each Spring module and powered by Micrometer and OpenTelemetry. Web applications can now rely on new features to handle errors based on the Problem Details for HTTP APIs specification. Finally, HTTP clients can now be powered by convenient interfaces for which the framework generates the implementation.

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1. Thomas Vitale
   Systematic
   Feb 16th, 2023
   Next-Generation Cloud Native
   Apps with Spring Boot 3
   @vitalethomas
   

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2. Systematic
   • Architect at Systematic,
   Denmark.
   
   • Author of “Cloud Native Spring
   in Action” (Manning).
   
   • OSS contributor (Java, Spring,
   Cloud Native Technologies)
   Thomas Vitale
   thomasvitale.com @vitalethomas
   

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3. Spring
   @vitalethomas
   

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4. thomasvitale.com @vitalethomas
   https://spring.io
   @vitalethomas
   

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5. Java 17
   @vitalethomas
   

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6. Java 8 -> 11 -> 17
   Performance improvements
   @vitalethomas
   Java 8
   ‣Startup: 3.784 s
   
   
   ‣Max heap used: 113 MiB
   
   
   ‣Committed heap: 177 MiB
   Java 11
   ‣Startup: 2.204 s
   
   
   ‣Max heap used: 43 MiB
   
   
   ‣Committed heap: 74 MiB
   Java 17
   ‣Startup: 1.776 s
   
   
   ‣Max heap used: 37 MiB
   
   
   ‣Committed heap: 55 MiB
   

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7. Data Persistence
   @vitalethomas
   

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8. Data Integration
   Spring Data for Relational Databases
   Spring Data JPA
   ‣JPA & Hibernate
   
   
   ‣Repositories
   
   
   ‣JDBC
   Spring Data JDBC
   ‣DDD Principles
   
   
   ‣Repositories
   
   
   ‣JDBC
   Spring Data R2DBC
   ‣DDD Principles
   
   
   ‣Repositories
   
   
   ‣R2DBC
   @vitalethomas
   

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9. Schema and data management
   Flyway: Version control for your database
   SQL Migrations
   
   
   Schema changes
   Java Migrations
   
   
   Data changes
   V1 Init schema
   V2 Add column
   V3 Create table
   V4 Add constraint
   time
   @vitalethomas
   

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10. Testing
    @vitalethomas
    

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11. Testing Spring Boot
    Types of auto tests for Spring Boot applications
    Unit Tests
    ‣JUnit
    
    
    ‣Mockito
    
    
    ‣No Spring context
    Integration Tests
    ‣@SpringBootTest
    
    
    ‣Web server
    
    
    ‣Full Spring context
    Slice Tests
    ‣@SpringWebMvc
    
    
    ‣@SpringDataR2dbc
    
    
    ‣Sliced Spring context
    @vitalethomas
    

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12. Testcontainers
    Testing with external dependencies
    Docker containers
    Run external
    dependencies as
    
    
    Docker containers
    Data Layer Tests
    Ensure environment
    parity by testing the data
    layer with the real
    database
    Integration Tests
    Use containers for
    databases, message
    queues, and web servers
    @vitalethomas
    

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13. Jakarta EE 9/10
    @vitalethomas
    

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14. From Java EE to Jakarta EE
    New package names since Jakarta EE 9
    import javax.persistence.Entity;
    import javax.servlet.Servlet;
    import javax.validation.Valid;
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    import jakarta.persistence.Entity;
    import jakarta.servlet.Servlet;
    import jakarta.validation.Valid;
    

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15. https://docs.openrewrite.org @vitalethomas
    

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16. Problem Details
    @vitalethomas
    

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17. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7807 @vitalethomas
    

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18. Deployment
    @vitalethomas
    

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19. Packaging Spring Boot
    JAR & Container Image
    JAR
    Container Image
    Gradle
    
    
    bootJar
    Maven
    
    
    spring-boot:repackage
    Gradle
    
    
    bootBuildImage
    Maven
    
    
    spring-boot:build-image
    @vitalethomas
    

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20. Image
    pack build
    Cloud Native Buildpacks
    From source code to container image
    @vitalethomas
    

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21. Native Images
    @vitalethomas
    

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22. Spring Boot 3 and Native Images
    Native executables with GraalVM
    Slower
    
    Heavier
    
    Build
    Instant
    
    Startup
    Reduced
    
    Memory
    
    Consumption
    Instant
    
    Peak
    
    Performance
    Fewer
    
    Runtime
    
    Optimizations
    @vitalethomas
    

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23. Declarative Clients
    @vitalethomas
    

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24. Observability
    @vitalethomas
    

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25. Monitoring and management
    Operating applications in production
    Spring Boot Actuator
    ‣Health (liveness and readiness)
    
    
    ‣Metrics (Prometheus, OpenMetrics)
    
    
    ‣Flyway, Thread Dumps, Heap Dumps
    Micrometer Tracing
    ‣Distributed tracing
    
    
    ‣Instrumentation
    
    
    ‣OpenZipkin and OpenTelemetry
    @vitalethomas
    

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26. grafana.com @vitalethomas
    

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27. https://github.com/paketo-buildpacks/opentelemetry @vitalethomas
    

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28. https://github.com/paketo-buildpacks/samples/tree/main/java/opentelemetry
    @vitalethomas
    tasks.named('bootBuildImage') {
    buildpacks = [
    "paketo-buildpacks/java",
    "gcr.io/paketo-buildpacks/opentelemetry"
    ]
    environment = ["BP_OPENTELEMETRY_ENABLED": "true"]
    }
    OpenTelemetry
    Support in Paketo Buildpacks
    

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29. Resources
    @vitalethomas
    

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30. https://github.com/ThomasVitale/spring-boot-next-gen-apps
    

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31. https://github.com/ThomasVitale/awesome-spring
    

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32. https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/golden-path/8/
    

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33. Thomas Vitale
    Systematic
    Feb 16th, 2023
    Next-Generation Cloud Native
    Apps with Spring Boot 3
    @vitalethomas
    

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