Remember the choose your own adventure books that you used to read as a kid? This session is a reincarnation of a choose your own adventure book as a conference talk! You'll learn about Spring Boot, Docker, and Kubernetes in this talk, along with the choices you make in the following areas: * What kind of application architecture to build? Monolith or microservices? * Would you like to use Java or Kotlin? * MySQL, PostgreSQL, Neo4j, or MongoDB? * Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux? * Angular, React, or Vue? * PWA or mobile app? * Istio with Kubernetes or Kubernetes without Istio? GitHub repos of demos: * Monolith: https://github.com/mraible/healthy-hipster * Microservices: https://github.com/mraible/choose-jhipster