Optimizing SpringBoot Startup Time: Analyzing and Reducing Bean Scanning and Initialization Overheads
This article investigates why a SpringBoot service takes 6‑7 minutes to start, identifies the costly bean‑scanning and bean‑initialization phases, and demonstrates how to speed up startup to around 40 seconds using custom SpringApplicationRunListener, BeanPostProcessor monitoring, JavaConfig selective bean registration, and cache auto‑configuration adjustments.