Very slow Spring Boot application startup

Question

I have a simple Spring Boot application that connects to a PostgreSQL database and serves as a JSON service. Somehow the startup has become very slow, see timings 10:37:10 a

Answer 1

For dev environment, use the following property

spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=none

This would be a bit risky for staging and prod environment.

Answer 2

Contributing application.yml version of property setting.

spring:
  jpa:
    properties:
      hibernate:
        temp:
          use_jdbc_metadata_defaults: false