Customized 8-Week Learning Plan (Advanced

Topics)
For Intermediate Learners | 6-8 Hours/Day

1. Revised Learning Goals

By the end of this plan, you will:

• Design APIs with complex business logic (transactions, event-driven workflows,

advanced JPA/Hibernate).
• Master Spring Security (JWT, OAuth2, role-based access).
• Build reactive APIs with Spring WebFlux and R2DBC.
• Implement microservices with service discovery, API gateways, and Kafka for event
streaming.
• Deploy scalable apps using Docker/Kubernetes and cloud platforms (AWS, Heroku).
• Integrate Redis for caching and Kafka for real-time messaging.

2. Day-by-Day Roadmap

Total Time: 8 weeks (6-8 hours/day). Focus on advanced JPA, security, microservices, and
deployment.

Week 1-2: Advanced JPA & Business Logic

Day Focus Tasks

- Entity relationships (OneToMany, ManyToMany,
1 JPA Deep Dive
cascading).
- Practice with an e-commerce schema (Product, Order,
User).
2 Transactions & Locking - Implement @Transactional for order processing.
- Optimistic vs. pessimistic locking.
3 Hibernate Caching - Configure L2 cache with EhCache/Redis.
- Write native SQL queries, stored procedures, and @Query
4 Complex Queries
with DTO projections.
- Implement Strategy Pattern for payment gateways (Credit
5 Business Logic Patterns
Card, PayPal).
Day Focus Tasks
Project 1: E-Commerce - Add inventory management, discount rules, and order
6
Platform cancellation logic.
- Test concurrency (e.g., 100 users placing orders
7 Project 1 Review
simultaneously).

Resources:

• Baeldung: Advanced JPA (free).

• Udemy: Hibernate Advanced (paid, $15).

Week 3-4: Spring Security & Reactive Programming

Day Focus Tasks

- Setup authentication/authorization with in-memory
1 Spring Security Basics
users.
2 JWT Implementation - Secure your e-commerce API with JWT tokens.
- Integrate social login using spring-security-oauth2-
3 OAuth2 with Google/GitHub
client.
Role-Based Access Control - Define roles (ADMIN, USER) and secure endpoints
4
(RBAC) with @PreAuthorize.
- Convert a CRUD API to reactive using Spring WebFlux
5 Reactive Programming
+ R2DBC.
Project 2: Secure Reactive - Build a reactive API with real-time notifications (use
6
Social Media Server-Sent Events).
- Test security with Postman and measure performance
7 Project 2 Review
under load (JMeter).

Resources:

• Spring Security Official Guide (free).

• Amigoscode: JWT Course (free).
Week 5-6: Microservices & Event-Driven Architecture

Day Focus Tasks

1 Microservices Basics - Build two services: user-service and order-service.
2 Service Discovery (Eureka) - Register services with Eureka Server.
API Gateway (Spring Cloud
3 - Route requests, handle CORS, and rate-limiting.
Gateway)
Inter-Service - Sync: REST with FeignClient. Async: Kafka for order
4
Communication events (e.g., "order_placed").
5 Distributed Transactions - Implement Saga pattern for order fulfillment.
Project 3: Food Delivery - Split into restaurant-service, delivery-service, and
6
System payment-service with Kafka.
7 Project 3 Review - Simulate a payment failure and test Saga rollback.

Resources:

• Book: Spring Microservices in Action (paid, $35).

• Kafka Tutorials (free).

Week 7-8: Deployment & Advanced Tools

Day Focus Tasks

1 Dockerize Apps - Create Dockerfiles for your microservices.
- Deploy to Minikube, configure pods, services, and
2 Kubernetes Basics
ingress.
- Cache product listings in your e-commerce app with
3 Redis for Caching
@Cacheable.
4 AWS Deployment - Deploy to AWS Elastic Beanstalk/ECS.
5 Monitoring & Logging - Use Spring Actuator + Prometheus + Grafana.
Project 4: Full Deployment
6 - CI/CD with GitHub Actions/Jenkins to deploy to AWS.
Pipeline
- Present all projects, document architecture, and optimize
7 Final Review
performance.

Resources:

• Docker Docs (free).

• AWS Free Tier (free for 12 months).
3. Study Tips for Advanced Topics

1. Break Down Business Logic:

o Use flowcharts to map complex workflows (e.g., order processing).
o Isolate logic into @Service classes (e.g., PaymentService, InventoryService).
2. Debugging Microservices:
o Use distributed tracing with Zipkin/Sleuth.
o Log correlation IDs for cross-service requests.
3. Redis/Kafka Practice:
o For Redis: Cache frequently accessed data (e.g., user profiles).
o For Kafka: Stream order updates to a notification service.

4. Evaluation Metrics

• Business Logic: Implement a use case with >3 conditional workflows (e.g., refunds with
partial payments).
• Security: Pass OWASP ZAP penetration tests for your API.
• Deployment: Achieve zero-downtime deployment with Kubernetes rolling updates.

5. Adjustments

• If Stuck: Focus on one tool (e.g., Kafka) before moving to Redis.

• If Ahead: Add GraphQL with Spring GraphQL or explore serverless (AWS Lambda).

Next Steps:

1. Fork these GitHub repos for hands-on practice:

o Microservices Demo
o Event-Driven Architecture
2. Join Spring Community Slack for live troubleshooting.

Let’s build something complex!