Chicken or Egg

These days it is practically hard do not use a Spring. I suspect the explosive blooming of JVM languages nowadays may be just a desperate attempt to escape this beast, gradually acquiring the Java world. And despite I'm not especially thrilled about it, my last three contracts were around so, I might admit this. Last its reincarnation on the market, the Spring Boot, looks solid on glance. The dependency hell of its previous incarnation was polished by Maven's BOM. I barely can see areas it doesn't cover, it looks like a pretty mature framework that seems self-sufficient and, no doubts, it is a pretty handy tool for practically any Web related PoC. Swiss knife in middleware, give or take. Design microservices from scratch or moving an old monolith towards to, most likely brings the Spring Cloud into consideration. Plenty workforce resources on a market are familiar with it thus gives it advantage over alternatives. Plus it requires only declarative configuration with minimal or even none of code: so, less code, less bugs.