It's annotation-based for developing the framework, which minimizes a lot of coding. It also improves the time to market and makes it easily deployable and configurable. We can provide security easily and develop the CQRS pattern.

We are a financial technology company. We chose Spring Boot because it provides additional security layers, essential for the sector. Moreover, it offers powerful tools and technologies that enable us to focus on specific microservices. It is crucial because the banking industry and financial technology typically rely on a monolithic architecture, where the failure of one service affects the entire system. However, with Spring Boot, a cache in one microservice only impacts that particular service while the others remain unaffected. It is significant considering the large number of users who utilize banking applications.

Spring Boot has sped time to market and has also improved testability, hence also improving the quality of deployed solutions. By eliminating the need for XML configuration, Spring Boot has also been instrumental in improving application performance, since this shift away from XML has provided an impetus to migrate from SOAP to RESTful services.

Also, Spring Boot has facilitated cloud migrations, since now the application can be deployed as a simple JAR file. Where Spring Boot has not helped has been with clients, who insist on moving away from Java (and .NET), towards lighter-weight solutions, such as NodeJS.

They have starter POMs and starter configurations for different use cases. But sometimes, when the dependencies within those starter packages clash, mismatch or have a hazard, it is hard to solve the issue. The dependency management should be improved so there can be a configuration showing that it's clashing.

The solution reduces our development time.

Since microservices are totally linked to the business capabilities and, at the same time, it is a way or a style of handling the business functionality and the business processes, Spring Boot comes into the picture where you are just focusing on building microservices for one specific business function. So that has been really helpful. You can have both the UI part and the API part, so that the microservice can be utilized either with other applications or it can be used independently.

It has been helpful in assisting us in the process of building websites.