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My skills required for future performances

✅ Event Driven
✅ Spring Boot: Spring Security upgrade
✅ Spring Boot: Virtual Thread
❌ Git Brush up
❌ Spring Boot: JUnit 5 and Mockito, MockMvc, TDD
❌ Spring Boot 3 Observability | Monitor Method & Service Performance
❌ Spring Session
❌ Spring Integration
❌ Spring HATEOAS
❌ Spring Modulith
❌ Spring REST Docs
❌ Spring AI
❌ Spring Batch
❌ Spring for Apache Kafka
❌ Spring for Apache Pulsar
❌ Spring Boot: Implement and use Redis for caching
❌ Java Upgrade
❌ Advance Caching using Redis
❌ GraphQL

Checklist for Skill Upgrade for a Spring Boot Developer with 7 Years of Experience

Core Spring Boot Skills

• Spring Framework Basics

  • Dependency Injection
  • Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)
  • Spring MVC

• Spring Boot Fundamentals

  • Spring Boot Annotations
  • Spring Boot Starters
  • Application Configuration (application.properties/application.yml)
  • Spring Boot Actuator

• Spring Boot Testing

  • Unit Testing with JUnit
  • Integration Testing
  • Mocking with Mockito
  • Testing REST APIs

• Data Access

  • Spring Data JPA
  • Hibernate
  • Transaction Management
  • Spring Data REST
  • Query Methods and Custom Queries

• Security

  • Spring Security
  • OAuth2 and JWT
  • Method-level Security

Advanced Spring Boot Skills

• Microservices Architecture

  • Building Microservices with Spring Boot
  • Service Discovery with Eureka
  • API Gateway with Zuul or Spring Cloud Gateway
  • Load Balancing with Ribbon
  • Circuit Breaker with Hystrix or Resilience4j

• Spring Cloud

  • Spring Cloud Config
  • Spring Cloud Bus
  • Distributed Tracing with Sleuth and Zipkin
  • Spring Cloud Stream
  • Spring Cloud Function

• Reactive Programming

  • Project Reactor
  • WebFlux
  • Reactive Data Access

• Performance Tuning and Monitoring

  • JVM Tuning
  • Using Spring Boot Actuator for Monitoring
  • APM tools like New Relic, Dynatrace, or Prometheus

DevOps and CI/CD

• Containerization

  • Docker Basics
  • Docker Compose
  • Building and Running Spring Boot Applications in Docker

• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment

  • Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions
  • Building Pipelines for Spring Boot Applications
  • Automated Testing and Deployment

• Cloud Platforms

  • Deploying Spring Boot Applications on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
  • Using Platform as a Service (PaaS) like Heroku, Cloud Foundry, or OpenShift

Soft Skills

• Communication

  • Effective Communication with Team Members and Stakeholders
  • Writing Clear and Concise Documentation

• Collaboration

  • Agile/Scrum Methodologies
  • Version Control with Git
  • Code Review Best Practices

• Problem-Solving

  • Debugging Skills
  • Analytical Thinking

Emerging Technologies and Trends

• Kubernetes

  • Basics of Kubernetes
  • Deploying and Managing Spring Boot Applications in Kubernetes

• Serverless Architecture

  • Introduction to Serverless
  • Using AWS Lambda or Azure Functions with Spring Boot

• GraphQL

  • Basics of GraphQL
  • Integrating GraphQL with Spring Boot

Professional Development

• Certifications

  • Spring Certified Professional
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

• Community Engagement

  • Participating in Conferences and Meetups
  • Contributing to Open Source Projects

• Continuous Learning

  • Online Courses and Tutorials (Pluralsight, Udemy, Coursera)
  • Reading Technical Books and Blogs