Why Spring Boot Falters in Serverless: Comparing Quarkus, Micronaut & Helidon
Spring Boot’s heavy runtime, driven by reflection and classpath scanning, incurs long cold starts and high memory usage, making it costly for serverless and edge deployments; lightweight frameworks like Quarkus, Micronaut, and Helidon shift work to compile time and offer native images, but introduce trade‑offs in dynamism, ecosystem coverage, and build complexity.
