Spring Boot Persistence Best Practices

This book is a collection of developer code recipes and best practices for persisting data using Spring, particularly Spring Boot. The book is structured around practical recipes, where each recipe discusses a performance case or performance-related case, and almost every recipe has one or more applications. Mainly, when we try to accomplish something (e.g., read some data from the database), there are several approaches to do it, and, in order to choose the best way, you have to know the implied trades-off from a performance perspective. You’ll see that in the end, all these penalties slow down the application. Besides presenting the arguments that favor a certain choice, the application is written in Spring Boot style which is quite different than plain Hibernate.

Persistence is an important set of techniques and technologies for accessing and using data, and this book demonstrates that data is mobile regardless of specific applications and contexts. In Java development, persistence is a key factor in enterprise, ecommerce, cloud and other transaction-oriented applications.

After reading and using this book, you'll have the fundamentals to apply these persistence solutions into your own mission-critical enterprise Java applications that you build using Spring.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

* Shape *-to-many associations for best performances
* Effectively exploit Spring Projections (DTO)
* Learn best practices for batching inserts, updates and deletes
* Effectively fetch parent and association in a single SELECT
* Learn how to inspect Persistent Context content
* Dissect pagination techniques (offset and keyset)
* Handle queries, locking, schemas, Hibernate types, and more

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

Any Spring and Spring Boot developer that wants to squeeze the persistence layer performances.

ANGHEL LEONARD is a Chief Technology Strategist with 20+ years of experience in the Java ecosystem. In daily work, he is focused on architecting and developing Java distributed applications that empower robust architectures, clean code, and high-performance. Also passionate about coaching, mentoring and technical leadership. He is the author of several books, videos and dozens of articles related to Java technologies.

Chapter 1: Associations

Chapter 2: Entitites

Chapter 3: Fetching

Chapter 4: Batching

Chapter 5: Collections

Chapter 6: Connections and Transactions

Chapter 7: Identifiers

Chapter 8: Calculating Properties

Chapter 9: Monitoring

Chapter 10: Configuring DataSource and Connection Pool

Chapter 11: Audit

Chapter 12: Schemas

Chapter 13: Pagination

Chapter 14: Queries

Chapter 15: Locking

16: Types and Hibernate Types

Appendix A: JPA Fundamentals

Appendix B: Associations Efficiency

Appendix C: 5 SQL Performance Tips That Will Save Your Day

Appendix D: How to Create Useful Database Indexes

Appendix E: SQL Phenomena

Appendix F: Spring Transaction Isolation Level

Appendix G: Spring Transaction Propagation

Appendix H: Understanding Flushing Mechanism

Appendix I: Second Level Cache

Appendix J: Tools

Appendix K: Hibernate 6