In this blog, I’ll outline why learning and mastering Spring Boot in 2023 is a worthwhile endeavor, even though there may be a few differing opinions. I’ll also explore how Spring Boot compares to other backend technologies and alternative Java frameworks.

  • eksb@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    While you are mastering Spring, I am mastering libraries that do the thing my program needs to do.

    While you are trying to debug to your Spring app, which is a huge PITA because Spring is a rat’s nest of conflicting configuration paradigms and overlays and fills your call stack with dozens of layers of generated methods, I have finished my work and am at the beach helping my coworker debug his Spring app because he didn’t listen to me when I said not to use Spring.

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      1 year ago

      Unfortunately, Spring is still the de facto standard in many companies and deviating from it takes effort and is sometimes completely futile.