Spring Boot: Mastering the Fundamentals

This course is the first part of a series aimed at guiding you from basics to full mastery in Spring Boot. In this part of the course, we focus on fundamental concepts to ensure a solid understanding of basic principles before moving on to building web applications and APIs in the next module.

This is not just another Spring Boot course - it's a clear, concise, and practical program where each lesson is designed to expand your knowledge through real-world examples, best practices, and useful tips rarely found in other training programs.

If you are looking for a structured, practical course with minimal theory that will equip you with the skills to create real applications, then this course is for you!

What you will learn:

• Understand how Spring Boot manages objects and dependencies.
• Connect applications to relational databases.
• Configure applications using application.properties and YAML files.
• Use Spring Data repositories for database operations.
• Distinguish between "database-first" and "model-first" approaches and understand when to apply each.
• Track entities through Hibernate and ensure data integrity with transactions.
• Optimize data fetching strategies with eager and lazy loading.
• Create custom queries using @Query, JPQL, and native SQL.
• Apply projections to extract only necessary data and reduce load.
• Build dynamic queries using Query by Example, Criteria API, and Specifications API.
• Implement sorting and pagination for efficient handling of large data volumes.
• Apply Lombok to reduce boilerplate code and simplify entity classes.
• Use tools for quickly generating entities, repositories, and queries.
• Apply best practices for application structuring and performance optimization.