Technology Selections

• The project uses Java 21 (Microsoft Build of OpenJDK)
• We are using Spring Boot 4.0 with Maven 3.9+ to build it
• Jakarta EE 11 (Jakarta Persistence & Servlet APIs)
• Virtual Threads (Project Loom) enabled for high-performance concurrency
• Our preferred choice of Database is MySQL or MariaDB
• JWT-based Security via Spring Security 7.0
• Logging with SLF4J API and Logback implementation
• Continuous integration is done using GitHub Actions
• OpenTelemetry for robust observability and tracing
• Springdoc OpenAPI 3 for comprehensive Swagger documentation
• Lombok is used to reduce boilerplate, but the annotation set we use is limited
• SonarCloud and CodeQL are used for static analysis