🚫 Stop Using Spring Boot @Transactional Everywhere: Understand When You Actually Need It

Ramesh Fadatare

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Apr 12, 2025

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In Spring Boot applications, the @Transactional annotation is a powerful feature that helps manage transactions in a declarative way. However, many developers use it blindly — on every service method, on repository classes, and sometimes even on controllers — without understanding what it actually does or when it’s required.

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Using @Transactional everywhere can cause performance issues, hidden bugs, or simply add unnecessary overhead.

This article will explain:

• What @Transactional actually does
• What Spring Data JPA does for you automatically
• When you should use @Transactional explicitly — and when you don’t need it
• Best practices for keeping your transaction management clean and clear