IME it's not uncommon for even a small a Java Spring application to take like a minute to build and like many seconds (30?) to properly start up and start taking requests.
Heh? Spring boot starts up in like 2-3 seconds. Of course you can register like 50 different messaging services or what not but then you are not comparing apples to oranges.
Also, that seems like a very excessive build time, either there is some badly configured build script or you are again comparing a full fledged spring app with another vanilla framework.
We don't have a whole lot going on. I'm talking about building an uber jar with shadowJar gradle plugin. Maybe 20 endpoints on a single controller connecting, and connecting one Kafka publisher and Cassandra db.
Also, that seems like a very excessive build time, either there is some badly configured build script or you are again comparing a full fledged spring app with another vanilla framework.