It's one thing to read about spring boot, spring data JPA and other technology. It's even better to generate a short, self-contained, correct ready-to-run example quickly. Thomas Surmann's Bootify.io web application is fabulous for learning or starting a new application.

Come learn about the SaaS web application Bootify.io, the "Best developer experience for starting Spring Boot apps ‐ best practices included."

We'll discuss and work through the following (bring your laptop if you'd like to play along):

1. A tour of the free tier of great SaaS that is Bootify.io
   1. Generating many to many relationships with JPA (spring data)
   2. h2Database.com - Quick & easy all Java Database with an easy-to-use web console
      1. Then we'll swap h2 out for PostgreSQL.
   3. API generation with swagger (OpenAPI) using Bootify
   4. Thymeleaf GUI that sits alongside the APIs
   5. HTMX.org is an excellent (language-neutral) way to mix AJAX into your application for single-page app-like interactivity.
2. We'll do all the mvn install work in the cloud -- no heavy downloads on wifi. How? We'll demo two cloud development environments.
3. See how quick & easy it is to use GitPOD.io's free tier. GitPOD.io is a cloud development environment that makes it easy to explore a GitHub repository.
4. See how quick & easy GitHub's Codespaces are to use. Currently, GitHub gives away "up to 60 hours a month free" of Codespaces to each user.

We'll use the sample repo https://github.com/payne/team2 that was created in minutes using Bootify.io.

The short link for this presentation is MattPayne.org/bootify.

You see it on the front of URLs. You know that it's important to APIs. When you write applications that are connecting to services on other machines you're using it. So you're likely using it in everything you build. But, what the heck is HTTP, really?

In this talk, we'll dive into the mechanics of HTTP starting from requests & responses, diving into nouns & verbs, and going deep into the mechanics of how authentication works over the protocol. Come join us as we learn all about something that most of us use everyday.