You may have already used Spring Data REST, but how do you make it perform faster and better interact with the user? From its initial creation, you may introduce the usage of ETags to optimize the server access through caching and conditional requests, limit the access to repositories/methods/records, work with paging and with REST events to manage side actions, customize the default view through projections and excerpts to nicely interact with the end user. This session will demonstrate how to efficiently build such a Spring Data REST application.