--- title: Bootiful Spring Boot in 2024 (part 1) | daily.dev description: Java and Spring Boot developers are living in the best time with improved features and tools. The post discusses the benefits of using Spring Boot, the use of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/bootiful-spring-boot-in-2024-part-1--ea0fg6uso twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Bootiful Spring Boot in 2024 (part 1) | daily.dev og:description: Java and Spring Boot developers are living in the best time with improved features and tools. The post discusses the benefits of using Spring Boot, the use of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/bootiful-spring-boot-in-2024-part-1--ea0fg6uso og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Ea0fg6usO.png og:image:alt: Bootiful Spring Boot in 2024 (part 1) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Bootiful Spring Boot in 2024 (part 1) **[Spring](https://daily.dev/sources/spring)** · 26 min read · 58 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Java and Spring Boot developers are living in the best time with improved features and tools. The post discusses the benefits of using Spring Boot, the use of Java 21 and GraalVM, the power of Java records, and the introduction of virtual threads for improved scalability. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@littlegreengeek** · 0 upvotes > As often with Virtual Threads, they are showcased as a silver bullet which will magically improve scalability. > > Yes, with Spring Boot 3.2 you can easily enable them and... break your app. > > Be aware: > - JNI (thread pinning) > - synchronized (thread pinning) > - CPU intensive tasks (thread monopolization) > - Thread Local variables (memory) > - every single lib you depend on must be VT friendly > > Also virtual threads are less performant than platform threads and their memory footprint (although significantly better) depends on the size of the stack. --- Tags: [#java](https://daily.dev/tags/java), [#spring-boot](https://daily.dev/tags/spring-boot) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/bootiful-spring-boot-in-2024-part-1--ea0fg6uso) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Bootiful Spring Boot in 2024 (part 1)","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/bootiful-spring-boot-in-2024-part-1--ea0fg6uso","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/bootiful-spring-boot-in-2024-part-1--ea0fg6uso"},"datePublished":"2024-03-11T16:17:22.741Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T09:28:47.883Z","description":"Java and Spring Boot developers are living in the best time with improved features and tools. 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