🔥 1. Spring Boot Core Internals

Core Topics

Spring Boot Architecture & Auto-Configuration (How @EnableAutoConfiguration Works)

Spring Bean Lifecycle & Scopes (@PostConstruct, @PreDestroy, Prototype vs Singleton)

Spring Boot Starter Modules (How Spring Boot Starters Work Internally)

Spring Boot Annotations Deep Dive (@Component, @Service, @Repository, @Controller, @RestController)

Embedded Servers (Tomcat, Jetty, Undertow, and their performance differences, internal working)

Spring Boot Properties & Profiles (YAML vs Properties, External Configuration, Environment Variables)

Practice Questions

1️⃣ How does Spring Boot Auto-Configuration work internally?

2️⃣ What is the difference between @Component, @Service, and @Repository?

3️⃣ How does Spring manage the lifecycle of beans?

4️⃣ What is @Primary, @Qualifier, and when do you use them?

5️⃣ What happens when you run a Spring Boot application (internally)?

Hands-On Practice

✔ Create a custom Spring Boot starter.

✔ Explore the spring-boot-autoconfigure module to understand @Conditional annotations.

✔ Debug Spring Boot’s ApplicationContext initialization process.