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# Application Examples

Standalone, end-to-end example applications on GridGain: a Spring Boot REST service, a Micronaut microservice, a serverless Azure Function, and JSON in SQL.

Build an application on top of a GridGain cluster. These examples are standalone and can be read in any order.

| Tutorial                                                                                                                                                       | What you build                                                                                                                    |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [Build a RESTful Web Service With Spring Boot and GridGain](/docs/gridgain/gridgain-8/gridgain8-get-started/application-examples/build-rest-service-spring.md) | A Spring Boot RESTful service backed by GridGain 8, using Spring Data repositories, DTOs, a service layer, and a REST controller. |
| [Build Microservices With Micronaut and GridGain](/docs/gridgain/gridgain-8/gridgain8-get-started/application-examples/build-microservices-micronaut.md)       | A Micronaut microservice backed by a GridGain in-memory database, deployed with a two-node cluster in Docker.                     |
| [Serverless Computing With Ignite and Azure Functions](/docs/gridgain/gridgain-8/gridgain8-get-started/application-examples/serverless-azure-functions.md)     | A serverless Azure Function that uses an Apache Ignite cluster on AKS as an in-memory database and compute engine.                |
| [GridGain JSON Basics](/docs/gridgain/gridgain-8/gridgain8-get-started/application-examples/gridgain-json-basics.md)                                           | JSON data in SQL: load it, query it with JSON\_VALUE and JSON\_QUERY, and speed up queries with indexed columns.                  |