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Spring Boot & Parenthood: When Your Life Gets Auto-Configured
Congratulations! You’ve officially shipped the most complex, high-maintenance application of your life: a baby. You probably thought mastering Spring Boot was tough, but compared to parenting, even debugging a NullPointerException at 3 AM feels relaxing.
As a seasoned Spring Boot developer, you’re well-versed in managing dependencies, auto-configuration, and graceful error handling — right? Well, buckle up, because your tiny new family member is about to flip your carefully configured life upside down.
Let’s dive in.
1. Boot-Up Time Just Got Real
Remember when your Spring Boot app taking 10 seconds to start felt unbearably slow? Oh, sweet summer child. Your new app (a.k.a. your baby) has an unpredictable startup schedule — rebooting multiple times nightly without warning.
Gone are those leisurely evenings of reading logs and optimizing startup times. Instead, you’re up at 2 AM, staring into tiny eyes that say, “Logging level set to DEBUG, no stack trace available. Figure it out, human.”
2. Dependency Injection Everywhere
In Spring Boot, dependency injection is tidy, organized, and predictable. Parenthood, however, introduces dependencies that you…
