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Sourabh Sharma
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Sourabh Sharma

Sourabh Sharma is a Senior Development Manager at Oracle with over 20 years of experience in the industry. He is a manager and architect who has been designing on-premise and cloud-based applications using Java, Javascript, and Oracle DB. Sourabh has worked with leading companies and delivered enterprise products and applications. His expertise lies in conceptualizing, modeling, designing, and developing N-tier and cloud-based web applications while leading teams. Sourabh's experience also includes developing microservice-based solutions and implementing various types of workflow and orchestration engines. He believes in continuous learning and sharing knowledge through his books and training.
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Why use Spring Boot?

Nowadays, Spring Boot is the obvious choice for developing state-of-the-art, production-ready web applications specific to Spring. Its website (https://projects.spring.io/spring-boot/) also outlines its huge advantages.

Spring Boot is an amazing Spring tool created by Pivotal that was released for General Availability in April 2014. It was developed based on the request of SPR-9888 (https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-9888) with the title Improved support for containerless web application architectures.

You might be wondering: why containerless? Because today’s cloud environment, with its Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings, provides most of the features offered by container-based web architectures, such as reliability, management, and scaling. Therefore, Spring Boot focuses on making itself an ultralight container.

Spring Boot has its own default configurations and also supports auto-configuration to make production-ready web application development...

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Sourabh Sharma

Sourabh Sharma is a Senior Development Manager at Oracle with over 20 years of experience in the industry. He is a manager and architect who has been designing on-premise and cloud-based applications using Java, Javascript, and Oracle DB. Sourabh has worked with leading companies and delivered enterprise products and applications. His expertise lies in conceptualizing, modeling, designing, and developing N-tier and cloud-based web applications while leading teams. Sourabh's experience also includes developing microservice-based solutions and implementing various types of workflow and orchestration engines. He believes in continuous learning and sharing knowledge through his books and training.
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