Over the last five to ten years, we have seen companies increase their obsession with DevOps and moving towards Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment. The business goals typically involve delivering products faster to market, realizing competitive advantage and reducing the cost of delivering software to production. The goals of IT usually involve increasing deployment quality, consistency and reliability while reducing error prone manual processes. One thing that developers can do to help facilitate this journey is to streamline their own processes. Spring Boot takes a very opinionated approach to software development. It takes the idea of “convention over configuration” to a new level. This talk dives into why this approach can be good and how it can increase your productivity while enabling your organization to be successful in their journey towards continuous deployment.

1. Does your opinion matter?
Spring Boot doesn’t think
so… and that’s ok!

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3. What is Spring Boot?
• Create stand-alone apps that
“just run”
• Collection of opinionated
libraries and tools
• Convention over configuration
• No code generation or XML
configuration
• Provides production-ready
features
− Metrics, Health checks, Externalized
configuration
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4. Why use Spring Boot?
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5. Convince your peers!
• Easy to get started
• Easy dependency management
• Guides you towards writing testable code
• Auto configuration
• Embedded servlet container support
• Provides a range of common non-functional
• Supports “Twelve-Factor App” principles
• Fits nicely into the “Cloud Native” application paradigm
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6. Demo: Wistful Widgets
• In need of new capabilities to
interact with new B2C and B2B
customers.
− Create, update and delete widgets
− Shop and purchase widgets
• Time to market in order to
realize competitive advantage is
essential.
• The competitor, BnL Widgets, is
already underway on their
transformation.
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7. Resources
• https://start.spring.io/
• http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot/
• https://docs.spring.io/spring-
boot/docs/current/reference/html/common-application-
properties.html
• https://spring.io/tools
• https://spring.io/docs
• https://12factor.net/
• https://pivotal.io/cloud-native
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8. Thank You!
brian.mericle@choicehotels.com
@bpmericle
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianpmericle/
https://github.com/bpmericle/gluecon2017-spring-
boot
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