Maven & Gradle

Docker multi-stage builds produce small images, Kubernetes orchestrates them with probes and autoscaling, a CI/CD pipeline automates the path from commit to production, and the Maven lifecycle orders the build phases.

Maven is declarative XML with a fixed lifecycle and strong conventions; Gradle is a programmable DSL with a task graph, incremental builds, and caching for speed.

The lifecycle runs validate through deploy in order; install publishes to your local .m2, deploy publishes to the shared remote repo configured by distributionManagement.

We use Maven because it gives automatic transitive dependencies, a universal project layout, a repeatable lifecycle, and BOM-driven version alignment -- predictable builds everywhere.