Spring Boot is a framework from the team at Pivotal, designed to simplify the bootstrapping and development of a new Spring application. Coursera's Spring Boot catalogue teaches you how to use this powerful tool to rapidly build stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can just run. You'll learn about the core features of Spring Boot such as creating stand-alone Spring applications, auto-configuration, creating production-grade applications and non-functional features such as metrics, health checks, and externalized configuration. Step into the world of Spring Boot and discover how to make programming in Java faster, easier, and more efficient.