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 7.5K GitHub stars and 3.1K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Dropwizard's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Dropwizard?
Companies
61 companies reportedly use Dropwizard in their tech stacks, including Yammer, www.autotrader.co.uk, and ClassPass.
Developers
133 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Dropwizard.
Why developers like Dropwizard?
Here’s a list of reasons why companies and developers use Dropwizard
Top Reasons
Dropwizard Reviews
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Dropwizard in their tech stack.
Uber Technologies
Java
Dropwizard
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.
Malvern Kamukondiwa
Adthena Ltd.Dropwizard
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.
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.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
Dropwizard's Followers
154 developers follow Dropwizard to keep up with related blogs and decisions.
