21 engineers on Hacker News describe using Spring Boot first-hand: 6 endorse it, 3 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Spring Boot which is the framework we use, supports Kotlin just fine, at the same level as Java.”
endorse · production · aarroyoc · 2025-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My bread and butter used to be Spring-Boot w/ Lombok and I could take a service from inception to running in prod with fewer lines of code”
endorse · production · Tsarbomb · 2022-04-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“APIs and libraries are rock-solid, well documented and battle tested.”
endorse · production · cygned · 2021-04-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it's a pretty nice implementation and really easy to get started with if you already use Spring Boot.”
endorse · personal · jillesvangurp · 2020-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the SpringBoot is long in the tooth when it comes to cold boot times and our path differed”
regret · production · blntechie · 2020-09-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A major issue is that be default, Spring Boot publishes about 500 different metrics on a 10 second slice.”
regret · production · varikin · 2018-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run many spring boot services in that way. With absolutely no issues.”
endorse · production · foxylion · 2017-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Spring boot apps with hibernate often take at least ten seconds.”
regret · personal · djeikyb · 2017-08-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Spring does a lot to help (Spring Boot is great)”
endorse · production · manyxcxi · 2014-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Hibernate silently commits part of a transaction if Spring Boot (or generally any async operation) shuts down mid-transaction.”
neutral · production · mixon1212 · 2026-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“most of my work involves standard Spring Boot services”
neutral · production · throwaway8546 · 2024-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“insisted that we write all the frontend tests in Java and Spring Boot too”
neutral · production · solardev · 2023-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“TBMQ is based on Spring Boot.”
neutral · production · dlandiak · 2023-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've tested only the the service layer, skipping the spring boot controller. Of course there was a bug caused by bad annotations at the controller layer.”
neutral · production · kebsup · 2023-07-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we have a few Spring Boot based webapps which were running (along with PgSQL) on a shared AWS t2.medium instance, we migrated these to a GKE cluster”
neutral · production · pritambarhate · 2022-06-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our server is Kotlin/Spring boot”
neutral · production · jillesvangurp · 2022-05-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we're using all the modern cloud tooling: Spring Boot, Azure, containers, K8S, Gitlab pipelines.”
neutral · production · twh270 · 2020-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We're using the Expedia implementation for Kotlin and Spring Boot.”
neutral · production · 0.5 yr · jillesvangurp · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Spring, Struts2, SpringBoot, Jquery, AngularJS”
neutral · personal · alasdair_ · 2020-05-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've written our own blue-green deployment scripts for Spring Boot, Node.js/React/Vue, and Python.”
neutral · production · karmakaze · 2018-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Spring boot microservices using liquibase as schema evolver, we are using helm hooks to run a job pre-deploy”
neutral · production · kronin · 2018-06-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?