From Daemonizer to Spring Boot: Unlocking Developer Velocity

This talk was held on Wednesday, November 20, 2019.

Daemonizer is Indeed’s in-house Java application framework, providing developer facilities around the Spring framework and Tomcat. Ten years ago, Daemonizer provided a lightweight alternative to JEE containers and did a great job of meeting our needs.

However, keeping an in-house framework of this nature in sync with industry standards became a full-time job — one we haven’t kept up. Our framework has fallen behind many of the readily available, off-the-shelf open source alternatives.

Enter Spring Boot 2: an open source, Java-based application framework. We decided to replace Daemonizer with Spring Boot 2 after exploring the pros and cons of building or buying a framework to meet our current needs.

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Chris Bono is a senior software engineer at Indeed working on an experimental, next-generation job seeker experience by day and the Spring Boot initiative by night.

Cross-posted on Indeed Engineering Blog.