The 8 best Spring Boot courses in 2026

"Microservices" describes a software design pattern in which an application is a collection of loosely coupled services. These services are fine-grained, and can be individually maintained and scaled. The microservices architecture is ideal for the public cloud, with its focus on elastic scaling with on-demand resources. In this course, you will learn how to build Java applications using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud on Google Cloud. You'll use Spring Cloud Config to manage your application's configuration. You'll send and receive messages with Pub/Sub and Spring Integration. You'll also use

This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. In this course, you will explore how to harness the power of Spring AI, OpenAI, and Ollama to create intelligent AI-driven applications using Java and Spring Boot. From understanding the fundamentals of large language models (LLMs) to integrating OpenAI’s API, you'll learn the best practices for building and optimizing AI apps for real-world scenarios. By diving deep int

This course provides a solid foundation in designing and implementing microservices using Spring Boot. Microservices architecture enables scalable, maintainable, and modular applications, a key skill in modern software development. Learners will gain hands-on experience building a set of cooperating microservices, deploying them with Docker, and integrating persistence and reactive programming. This ensures practical skills that can be immediately applied in real-world projects. The course combines theory with practice by covering core concepts, Spring Boot features, API documentation with O

Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Dive into the world of modern Java application development with this comprehensive course on testing and building REST APIs using Spring Boot. Learn to master JUnit and Mockito to create robust, reliable, and maintainable unit tests. Gain practical insights into setting up and optimizing build tools like Maven and Gradle, and discover how the

Take your Spring Boot skills to the next level by learning how to deploy, scale, and monitor real-world applications using tools like Docker, AWS ECS, and Spring Security. In this hands-on course, you'll apply essential DevOps practices—CI/CD, containerization, and observability—to move confidently from local development to production-ready deployment. In the first module, you’ll explore modern deployment workflows, external configuration, and container fundamentals. You’ll also understand how Docker integrates into Spring Boot development. The second module guides you through building effici

Over 60% of Java developers use the Spring Framework to build enterprise-level applications. With its powerful features and extensive ecosystem, Spring is a vital tool in Java development. This course explores the Spring Framework and its core components, and guides you through setting up your development environment using Spring Initializr. During this course, you’ll learn how to develop robust applications using Spring Boot, master RESTful APIs, and build dynamic web applications with Spring MVC. You’ll discover how to configure controllers, utilize annotations, and efficiently build RE

This course explains some high level patterns used in Microservice architectures and the motivation to move towards these architectures and away from monolithic development of applications. . It then goes on to implement these patterns using Spring Cloud, Netflix OSS one of the most popular Cloud implementations of Microservices used today. Students will learn about Service Registration, Service Discovery, Client Side Load Balancing, Circuit Breakers, and Gateway or Edge Services in a Spring Boot Setting. It will leverage Spring Cloud and Netflix OSS, Labs will specifically target the project

Databases are the backbone of modern applications, powering everything from large scale enterprise systems to web applications. This course gives you the comprehensive grounding you need to work with databases using Java programming. Whether you have a little or no knowledge of databases, if you’re keen to understand the different types of databases and how to work with these databases using Java, this course is for you! During the course, you’ll explore the fundamentals of databases and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC). You’ll get hands-on developing database applications using Spring