Why I Still Believe in Zero-Cost BFF Layers After 6 Months (And What Broke) Honestly, I didn't expect to be writing this article. Six months ago, I built capa-bff — a zero-cost BFF framework that won a hackathon gold medal — and I thought I had it all figured out. "This is perfect," I told myself. "Zero configuration, works with any Spring Boot app, solves all the frontend aggregation problems." Spoiler alert: It didn't. Don't get me wrong — it's still great for what it is. But here's t...