Spring Boot with Kotlin, Functional Configuration and GraalVM

Explore a live coding demonstration of a Spring Boot application built with Kotlin, functional configuration, and GraalVM in this conference talk. Learn about the Kofu configuration, a Kotlin DSL for functional application setup, and discover features from the Spring Fu project. Gain insights into minimal default features, declarative and programmatic configuration, functional configuration with pure lambdas, reduced reflection usage, faster startup times, and lower memory consumption. Delve into GraalVM native image support, reactive SQL via R2DBC, and coroutines for web and persistence APIs. Understand the current state of development, lessons learned, and upcoming features in Spring Framework and Spring Boot.

Spring Boot with Kotlin, functional configuration and GraalVM by Sébastien Deleuze