The Price of a PhD in Spring
summary
A deep dive into Spring Boot’s core: the talk examines recurring problems, architectural characteristics, and the development workflow of Spring. It asks whether modern developers can build Spring Boot applications without enormous specialization (the “PhD” metaphor) and what cost that entails, and describes how the presenter’s team ended up creating their own framework, Kora.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:07Spring basics and toolkit
- 7:10Comparison with Kore framework
- 16:18Spring aspects and their cost
- 24:49Optimizations and real cost
- 37:00Cost of Spring experience
- 42:29Q&A








