A few months ago, I was invited to speak on Spring Boot and Cloud Native. This was a good discussion. It was fun to build an app from scratch using Boot. For those interested, you can find the app in my github account:
https://github.com/albertoaflores/spring-boot-demo
Slides used for that preso can be found here:
http://www.slideshare.net/albertoaflores/spring-boot-intro
Hope some find this useful.