IMO almost nobody is writing microservices with spring boot because its so gigantic. Hibernate isn't bad on memory use on its own. There's a raft of more sane

IMO almost nobody is writing microservices with spring boot because its so gigantic. Hibernate isn't bad on memory use on its own. There's a raft of more sane choices these days like Play, Dropwizard, Vert.X etc.. They all use far less resources. Spring Boot is huge because it has to support a decade of obsolete junk, its far more than just a REST app framework. Checkout TechEmpower's framework benchmarks https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r16&hw=ph&test=fortune&l=hr9lz3&d=9 https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r16&hw=... (I added filters to limit to Java+Go+JS+Python and limited DB to Postgres and Mysql) Java and Golang lead the pack, with JS a distant second and most Python frameworks hanging out near the bottom