Elasticsearch can help the Java EE world with both NoSQL documents and a search engine. See how to join the best of these two worlds using Eclipse JNoSQL.
Spring Cloud Gateway can help implement the gateway pattern for your API, especially in a microservices environment. Learn how to make use of it by way of an example.
If you've heard the buzz about Jenkins for CI/CD and want to get started, this guide will teach you all the steps (and workarounds for problems) you'll need.