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# Spring Boot Beyond the Defaults: A Practical Framework for Overriding Autoconfiguration


- **Event:** Conference India 2026

## Description

Spring Boot's greatest strength is its ability to assemble production-ready applications through autoconfiguration. Yet most teams struggle when the defaults no longer fit their requirements. The result is often unnecessary bean replacement, framework fights, and configuration sprawl.

In this session, we'll build a real Spring Boot application and explore a practical decision framework for customizing framework behavior safely and predictably.

Using live coding, we'll progressively move through four levels of intervention:

Property-based customization
Extension points and customizers
Implementation replacement through dependency changes
Bean replacement and ownership transfer

Along the way we'll inspect the Conditions Evaluation Report, understand how Spring Boot makes decisions during startup, and learn how to override behavior without breaking framework conventions.

Attendees will leave with a repeatable framework for deciding when to configure, extend, replace, or take ownership of Spring Boot infrastructure.

## Speaker

### [Pradeep Kumar](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@pradeep-kumar-2)

Software Architect, Technical Author, and Corporate Trainer helping teams build production-grade SaaS apps.


## Related talks at this congress

- [From Spring Boot to Spring AI: A Java Developer's Journey into Agentic Systems](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/conference-india-2026/sessions/2050-from-spring-boot-to) — Varsha Das
- [When Caches Lie: Solving Transactional Integrity and Distributed Race Conditions in Spring Boot](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/conference-india-2026/sessions/2064-when-caches-lie) — Shuchita Prasad
- [How We Cut Our API's p99 Latency from Minutes to Under a Second](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/conference-india-2026/sessions/1987-how-we-cut-our-api-s) — Deepak Agrawal
- [Spec-Driven Development: A Pragmatic Look](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/conference-india-2026/sessions/2015-spec-driven) — Hari Krishnan

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