What separates the traditional enterprise from the likes of Amazon, Netflix, and Etsy? Those companies have refined the art of cloud native development to maintain their competitive edge and stay well ahead of the competition. This practical guide shows Java/JVM developers how to build better software, faster, using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Cloud Foundry.

Many organizations have already waded into cloud computing, test-driven development, microservices, and continuous integration and delivery. Authors Josh Long and Kenny Bastani fully immerse you in the tools and methodologies that will help you transform your legacy application into one that is genuinely cloud native.

In four sections, this book takes you through:

The Basics: learn the motivations behind cloud native thinking; configure and test a Spring Boot application; and move your legacy application to the cloud

Web Services: build HTTP and RESTful services with Spring; route requests in your distributed system; and build edge services closer to the data

Data Integration: manage your data with Spring Data, and integrate distributed services with Spring’s support for event-driven, messaging-centric architectures

Production: make your system observable; use service brokers to connect stateful services; and understand the big ideas behind continuous delivery

Josh Long is the Spring developer advocate for SpringSource, a division of VMware. Josh is the lead author on Apress' Spring Recipes, 2nd Edition, and a SpringSource committer and contributor. When he's not hacking on code for SpringSource or other open-source projects, he can be found at the local Java User Group or at the local coffee shop. Josh likes solutions that push the boundaries of the technologies that enable them. His interests include scalability, integration, rich clients, BPM, grid processing, mobile computing and so-called "smart" systems. He blogs at blog.springsource.org or joshlong.com.

Kenny Bastani is a passionate technology evangelist and and open source software advocate in Silicon Valley. As an enterprise software consultant he has applied a diverse set of skills needed for projects requiring a full stack web developer in agile mode. As a passionate blogger and open source contributor, Kenny engages a community of passionate developers who are looking to take advantage of newer graph processing techniques to analyze data.