Micronaut is a modern, JVM-based, full-stack microservices framework designed for building modular, easily testable microservice applications. It is developed by Graeme Rocher, who also know for his contribution to Grails framework. Micronaut tries to solve the drawbacks of java frameworks like spring and also provide built in support for existing development ecosystem, which includes support for RabbitMq, Kafka, Service Discovery and Reactive programming.
The Micronaut’s philosophy is simple, do less in run time and pre commpute required data at the compile time.
Why use Micronaut?
- Lightweight and fast runtime: Micronaut has a small memory footprint and fast startup times, making it ideal for building serverless applications
- Dependency injection: Micronaut has a powerful dependency injection framework that provides easy management of dependencies, reduces boilerplate code, and promotes testability
- Reactive programming: Micronaut has built-in support for reactive programming, making it easy to build reactive microservices.
- Polyglot support: Micronaut supports several programming languages, including Java, Kotlin, and Groovy.
- Cloud-native features: Micronaut has several cloud-native features, including support for Kubernetes and Docker, service discovery, and configuration management
- Ahead of Time Compilation: The code is compiled into machine code before the program is executed
- Support for HTTP Client
- Micronaut CLI
