Explore advanced features of Spring Data REST in this comprehensive conference talk. Dive into building domain-driven REST web services using hypermedia, focusing on recent additions to the library. Learn to integrate manually coded REST resources, customize representations, and work with database-backed value types. Discover techniques for reducing boilerplate code and efficiently handling complex scenarios like custom state transitions. Gain insights into using projections, conditional requests, and Spring REST Docs. Follow along as the Spring Data Project Lead demonstrates practical examples and answers questions about implementing sophisticated REST services with Spring Data REST.