One nice thing about Spring Boot is that you can mix and match. You can assemble stuff very quickly using the starters, or you can use your own stuff. Pretty mu

One nice thing about Spring Boot is that you can mix and match. You can assemble stuff very quickly using the starters, or you can use your own stuff. Pretty much any level of abstraction is supported -- Spring Data spans the range from "thin convenience wrapper over JDBC" (JDBCTemplate) to "completely autogenerated RESTful endpoints based on JPA models" (Spring Data REST). In web land you can use raw servlets up to fully-dressed domain objects. Whatever you want, Spring can either fill in the gap or politely yield the floor. Not forgetting that dependency injection -- the original core feature -- is just the bee's knees. I work for Pivotal, but not on Spring. But I've definitely grown to appreciate it more and more over the years. I deeply miss it when mucking about in Golang.