[karmakaze]

I'm not ideologically against Spring since I mentioned Micronaut being a modern take on it, without the outdated assumptions. I'm not familiar with Quarkus but someone else recommended it so may have a look at it. I'm currently at a Rails shop, but I see patterns evolving as teams get larger toward program construction patterns like Spring, persistence, repository, application model, etc. ActiveRecord as big as it is, is still much simpler than Spring/Hibernate with an EntityManager.

BTW, I did work at a startup for years building microservices with Spring which is where I ran into it's limitations. I basically worked around the EntityManager, JPQL, and query template caching where ever it was necessary, which was frequent. I'm not against query builders or data mappers, having worked on making one myself[0]. I'm just more performance/resource conscious than most.

[0] https://github.com/karmakaze/safeql