Alternatives to Spring and spring boot Spring uses proxies and dynamic class loading heavily. Micronaut - with GraalVM https://micronaut.io/ https://guides.micronaut.io/latest/creating-your-first-micronaut-app-maven-java.html Quarkus https://quarkus.io/guides/ TODO https://medium.com/@vermatanisha666/i-replaced-spring-boot-with-quarkus-heres-what-happened-and-why-i-m-never-going-back-109db0b15b08 Links to this note Spring framework