Why Spring Boot’s Built‑in StopWatch Is a Cleaner Way to Measure Execution Time
The article explains the drawbacks of manually using System.currentTimeMillis for multi‑stage timing, introduces Spring’s StopWatch utility from spring‑core, demonstrates its API and code examples, shows three common usage scenarios, warns about pitfalls, compares it with raw timers, and argues why Spring itself adopts StopWatch for concise, structured performance monitoring.
