Why Spring Boot?

Spring is a great web framework and one of the most popular ones in the Java world. With Spring Boot it became even better. Spring Boot prefers convention over configuration and that eliminates a lot of boilerplate code. It's easier to write configurations. As a result, it feels more lightweight, unlike Spring Framework. Spring Boot is a microservice ready platform.

In a nutshell, Spring Boot helps you to quickly bootstrap your product, and it includes helpful features to push your application to production with almost no fuss. 

Leveraging Kotlin in Spring Boot applications

Using Kotlin for the development of Spring Boot applications is beneficial. Let's look at some of the common Kotlin constructs that are used for building Spring Boot applications.

Extension functions

The extension functions in Kotlin provide an easy way to add new functionality to an existing API in a non-intrusive way. Often, they are used to eliminate the need to write special utility or helper classes....