How One Spring Boot Optimization Saved Our Startup $30,000 a Year (opens in new tab)

Author(s): FutureLens Originally published on Towards AI. How One Spring Boot Optimization Saved Our Startup $30,000 a Year Our AWS bill was $7,400 last month. The month before, $6,900. The month before that, $6,200. The line was going in one direction. Our runway wasn’t. “Image created by ChatGPT”After observing steadily rising AWS costs without user growth, the author traces the issue to Spring Boot defaults and production inefficiencies: tuning HikariCP connection pooling to reduce CPU, th...