When they say "applications" do they mean stuff with more meat than microservices? If they're mostly microservices, 2800 seems low to me for someone with the recognition factor of Netflix.
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"This person" makes rather relevant comment on Spring boot's severe shortcomings. Whereas your comment from throwaway account is blabbering nonsense.
Their comments on the shortcomings boil down to, "I didn't spend any time learning how this works."
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#114It's too bad they are using Gradle and Intellij, used both before, went back to Maven and Eclipse. Personal preference I guess.
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#115Early on (15+ years ago) I spent a few weeks there on contract and I noticed they used Java EVERYWHERE, and not always well. They had a CS app named after a key Star Wars character that was in all likelihood a breach of the Geneva Convention. A code atrocity with the performance of a sloth on its 8th bong rip with a UX from hell.
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#116Spring Boot and Spring cloud for backend & graphql for the win. ;-)
The stack is tremendously productive, but history has taught me a few things when dealing with Spring:
1. It's always best to start people off with plain old spring, even with an XML context, such that they understand the concepts at play with higher level abstractions like Boot. Hell, I even start with a servlet and singletons to elucidate the shortcomings of rolling your own. 2. Don't fall prey to hype around new projects in the Spring ecosystem, such as their OAuth2 implementation, since they often become abandonware. It's always best to take a wait and see approach 3. Spring Security is/was terrible to read, understand, and extend ;)
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#118Early on (15+ years ago) I spent a few weeks there on contract and I noticed they used Java EVERYWHERE, and not always well. They had a CS app named after a key Star Wars character that was in all likelihood a breach of the Geneva Convention. A code atrocity with the performance of a sloth on its 8th bong rip with a UX from hell.
Evocative description there, bravo
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> I've never used any other webstack (and I've used several, in several languages) where it was so hard to figure out why different tests pollute each other, causing subtle failures depending on the order of test execution. Sure, you could say that it's all a matter of learning the right way, but there are just a terrible amount of footguns. > Debugging why something doesn't work in Spring can also be a nightmare. Ma…
Where are you migrating?
No idea yet. But the first step is to have totally isolated domain logic in plain Kotlin. That's a nice start. Next we'll look into Graalvm, but no high hopes that everything we need is compatible.
/edit: it's not meant to replace spring, I know what these things do. It's to remediate some of the performance issues and compile time safety, which using graalvm inevitably brings ...