Avoid Common SpringBoot Pitfalls: Optimize Default Settings for Production
This article examines the hidden dangers of SpringBoot's out‑of‑the‑box defaults—including Tomcat and HikariCP connection pools, JPA lazy loading, Jackson timezone handling, logging, caching, actuator exposure, file upload limits, async thread pools, static resource caching, and transaction timeouts—and provides concrete configuration tweaks to prevent production failures and boost performance.
