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by johnnycerberus 2101 days ago
We haven't used Spring MVC since 2015, all our services are running Spring Boot because it is the most mature solution on the market to create the webservice layer. Our Spring apps are then containerized and optimized with jib[1]. Our frontend is built on React Hooks + TypeScript, fully SPA. All the work nowadays in our company is focused on data engineering, by that I mean: databases, parsers, managing the data pipelines, orchestration, Python for creating the models and Java for inference in production, our teams consist of data scientists that are using Python and software engineers that are using Java and TypeScript.

I don't understand why people consider Spring to be overengineered. We find it very productive, time to market is huge and we can focus on other parts of development instead of reinventing the wheel. We are also considering Quarkus for some of our services that aren't supposed to run for a long time.

[1] https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib