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May 26, 2026 · Backend Development

Building Enterprise-Grade RESTful APIs with Spring Boot: Design, Validation & Rate Limiting

A comprehensive guide to building production-ready RESTful APIs using Spring Boot, covering resource naming conventions, HTTP verb semantics, unified response formats, global exception handling with @RestControllerAdvice, declarative validation via Hibernate Validator including group validation and custom constraints, distributed rate limiting with Redis and Lua scripts, and automated API documentation with SpringDoc OpenAPI.