Ratpack & Spring Boot offer powerful JVM platforms for building high performance, extensible microservices, leveraging Spring Data to create data driven REST APIs in a light, cloud native deployment.

This Spring Boot REST API tutorial teaches how to create microservices and cloud-native apps that support HTTP methods and exchange data via JSON or XML.

Get ready to deploy the Spring Java and React application to production, using MongoDB Atlas, Vercel for the React front end, and a Spring VM to host the back end.

Here's how to build a Spring Boot 12-Factor app and safely deploy a cloud-native Java app to Docker and Kubernetes servers.