Developer Newsletter: A RESTful Microservice Quickstart with Spring Data Cassandra and DataStax Astra

The Spring Framework continues to be widely used for developing microservices in Java, and the Spring Data Starter project is an example of this. This project uses Spring Data Cassandra to serve a REST API backed by DataStax Astra, demonstrating how easily developers can create and test microservice applications with Cassandra as a datastore. The process involves setting up a free-forever Astra database, deploying the service using Gitpod, and connecting it to the database. Once set up, users can interact with the REST API through Swagger or customize the code by forking the repository. For more information on Spring and Cassandra, check out the talk "Staying Ahead of the Curve with Spring and Cassandra 4" at SpringOne on September 2, 2020.