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That’s exactly what it is, a made up sql layer over sql exposing a special port. Ridiculous.

Quit Your Job 5 years ago

This is a very long article, and nowhere in it do I see how this guy supported himself after quitting his engineering job. He talks about a few vague references to situations that may be freelance paid gigs, but no specifics.

Don’t mention reactive spring on hacker news, everyone here writes in GO and javascript.

They’d rather re-invent the wheel every 5 minutes than use any out of the box java solution.

I think about unit testing like “pouring cement around your house of cards”.

If you are good at unit testing you can turn your brain off and the tests write themselves. It’s about preserving any method chain call flows and preserving the integrity of anything that is parsing something, like a Regex or whatever.

Focus on testing after you have built a nice little house of cards... it will make it harder for another dev to come along and blow it over in the future.

Take a step up the enlightenment ladder and put a type dynamic language on top of java. Lombok is silly and makes your object’s serialization capabilities a dice roll. Keep annotations to a minimum and bring in a type dynamic language (groovy, kotlin, etc)

Another thing nobody talks about much is that Executives and VP level people love to hire people from the military, because they do exactly what you tell them and rule with an iron fist.

Im sure there are ex-military people who are chill, but ive seen some insane ones running tech verticals in the past.