Spring Framework helped us through dark times and is still a very active and helpful project. But is it the only option for doing any kind of web projects? There are many new frameworks around and they have interesting approaches. Especially when we use Kotlin, we might get better Developer Experiences and much better performance results. This talk is about showing you some interesting alternatives and hopefully helps you with finding a good fit for your next project Let's have a look at a real life borrowed REST endpoint, written in Kotlin (dahhh) using Spring, Ktor, Micronaut and Jooby. We'll compare the efforts, timings and developer experience and collect pros and cons for that next project planning.