Why developers like Dropwizard

What is Dropwizard?

Dropwizard is a sneaky way of making fast Java web applications. Dropwizard pulls together stable, mature libraries from the Java ecosystem into a simple, light-weight package that lets you focus on getting things done.

Dropwizard is a tool in the Frameworks (Full Stack) category of a tech stack.

Dropwizard is an open source tool with 7.6K GitHub stars and 3.2K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Dropwizard's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Dropwizard?

Companies

59 companies reportedly use Dropwizard in their tech stacks, including Rent the Runway, CRED, and Channel.io.

Rent the Runway ...

CRED

Channel.io

Upwork

Samba Tech

Okta

SoFi

www.autotrader ...

Yammer

Developers

167 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Dropwizard.

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David M. Carr ...

My Stack

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My Stack

Dropwizard Integrations

Java

Wavefront

Netuitive

Boxfuse

Pros of Dropwizard

Quick and easy to get a new http service going

Good Testing frameworks

Java powered, lightweight

Scalable

All in one-productive-production ready-makes life easy

Simple

Great performance, Good in prod

Private Decisions at about Dropwizard

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by members of with Dropwizard in their tech stack.

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Sep 11, 2019 | 4 upvotes · 214.8K views

Application & Data

Java JavaScript Node.js nginx Ubuntu MongoDB Amazon EC2 Redis Amazon S3 AWS Lambda RabbitMQ Kafka MySQL Spring Boot Dropwizard Vue.js Flutter

Utilities

Google Analytics Elasticsearch Amazon Route 53

DevOps

GitHub Docker Webpack CircleCI Jenkins Travis CI Gradle Apache Maven

Cooperation Tools

Jira notion.so Trello

Public Decisions about Dropwizard

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Dropwizard in their tech stack.

StackShare Editors

Aug 2, 2014 | 1 upvotes · 7.2K views

Shared insights

Java

Dropwizard

Uber Technologies

The highest-volume service in Uber’s Map Services is a service called Gurafu, which provides sophisticated routing. Gurafu runs a Java-based stack and is built on top of the DropWizard framework.

ETA Phone Home: How Uber Engineers an Efficient Route | Uber Engineering Blog

Malvern Kamukondiwa

Web Solutions Architect at Adthena · a year ago | 1 upvotes · 5K views

Shared insights

Dropwizard

Adthena Ltd.

We use Dropwizard because it pulls together stable, mature libraries that most Java web engineers will be familiar with. It has out of the box support for sophisticated configuration, application metrics, logging and operational tools.

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Dropwizard Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Dropwizard?

Spring Boot

Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run". We take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss. Most Spring Boot applications need very little Spring configuration.

Play

Play Framework makes it easy to build web applications with Java & Scala. Play is based on a lightweight, stateless, web-friendly architecture. Built on Akka, Play provides predictable and minimal resource consumption (CPU, memory, threads) for highly-scalable applications.

Spring

A key element of Spring is infrastructural support at the application level: Spring focuses on the "plumbing" of enterprise applications so that teams can focus on application-level business logic, without unnecessary ties to specific deployment environments.

Dropwizard Metrics

It is a Java library which gives you insight into what your code does in production. It provides a powerful toolkit of ways to measure the behavior of critical components in your production environment. It provides you with full-stack visibility.

Jersey

It is open source, production quality, framework for developing RESTful Web Services in Java that provides support for JAX-RS APIs and serves as a JAX-RS (JSR 311 & JSR 339) Reference Implementation. It provides it’s own API that extend the JAX-RS toolkit with additional features and utilities to further simplify RESTful service and client development.

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