Spring Boot, while having improved its startup time and memory usage over the years, generally has a slower startup and higher memory footprint compared to Quarkus.

This Spring Boot, Hibernate and JPA tutorial shows how to connect Java programs to a MySQL database and test REST APIs with Swagger and JavaScript.

This Model Context Protocol tutorial shows how to build a Spring Boot MCP server to connect real-time data to AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor AI.