Title
Optimize Spring Boot startup time and runtime performance
Summary
Current services have slow startup and elevated request latency in production. The goal is to systematically optimize Spring Boot application startup time and overall runtime performance (both startup and steady-state), while keeping functionality unchanged — enabling faster iteration and improving production stability.
Goals
- Significantly reduce startup time (target: cold start ↓ ≥30% or meet team KPI).
- Use CPU/memory more efficiently; minimize unnecessary initialization and memory footprint.
- Reduce latency for critical requests and improve or stabilize throughput.
- Improve observability (startup time monitoring, slow-start alerts, performance metrics).
Task checklist
Acceptance criteria
- Cold start average time reduced ≥30% vs baseline or reaches agreed team target.
- Key API P95 latency reduced and maintained within SLA.
- Average memory usage reduced or GC pause time significantly improved.
- Production monitoring dashboard includes startup time, slow requests, GC/CPU/memory, thread-pool saturation.
- Changes pass unit/integration/performance tests and show no anomalies during canary.
Notes & recommendations
- Prioritize reversible, low-risk optimizations first (lazy init, dependency pruning, deferred init). High-risk approaches (GraalVM AOT, major architecture changes) need careful cost/compatibility assessment.
- Watch for heavy third-party initialization (drivers, SDKs); load such components lazily or asynchronously if they are costly.
- Keep rollback plans and robust monitoring; observe metrics for 24–72 hours after deployment.
- Repeat baseline tests regularly (add startup time checks into CI) to prevent regressions.
References (optional)
- Spring Boot official performance tuning guides
- JDK Flight Recorder / async-profiler for performance analysis
- GraalVM & Spring Native evaluation materials
Title
Optimize Spring Boot startup time and runtime performance
Summary
Current services have slow startup and elevated request latency in production. The goal is to systematically optimize Spring Boot application startup time and overall runtime performance (both startup and steady-state), while keeping functionality unchanged — enabling faster iteration and improving production stability.
Goals
Task checklist
lazy-initialization(gradually and per scenario).@Component/@Configuration(use@Conditional/@Lazy).spring.autoconfigure.exclude).ApplicationReadyEvent).--release, AOT, or GraalVM Native Image (cost/benefit analysis required).Acceptance criteria
Notes & recommendations
References (optional)