• Maximizes productivity
• Simplifies deployment, by allowing to create executable jar, and also supports traditional deployment on top of application server
• Provides automatic configuration which reduces boilerplate configuration, and allows easy customization when defaults are not sufficient
• Allows for Dev/Prod Parity (https://12factor.net/)
• Provides set of managed dependencies
• Provides Maven Plugins
• Provides non-functional features common for projects - externalized configuration, security, metrics, health checks
• Integrates with Micro Service Architecture Tools for building Highly Available and Fault Tolerant Applications – Eureka, Ribbon, OpenFeign
• Integrates with systemd and init.d, which allows to easily run applications as Linux Services
• Uses IoC/DI from Spring Framework