@johnl ~Exactly, it is the wrong Spark. Why use the same name as such a widely popular computational framework. ~ I am not sure what logging dependencies you have had a problem with. Spring Boot on its own really is very tiny and simple but that is kind of the point. The real power comes when you start adding `starter`s from the Spring Framework. For example for making oAuth work or SSO or Redis. It is really a matter of seconds.

poohbar: you could be right those types of integrations may be useful by they are also kind of enterprise-y and microservices should let gateways handle most of that.