Ask HN: Spring Boot, Java Which companies in SF Bay Area are still developing using Spring Boot/Java tech stack in production for any recent or newly launched services? Or is everyone only using Python or Golang or something other than Java? |
Ask HN: Spring Boot, Java Which companies in SF Bay Area are still developing using Spring Boot/Java tech stack in production for any recent or newly launched services? Or is everyone only using Python or Golang or something other than Java? |
Node, Golang, and Python all seem popular depending on what you're building...
Sorry for the irrelevant comment.
Reference: I work for an Indian company, but I'm not Indian.
Part of the reason I quit my last job was that when my previous manager quit, they replaced him with an Indian manager who insisted that we write all the frontend tests in Java and Spring Boot too (even though our frontend used React and JS exclusively). We spent weeks debugging issues with Java VMs, CI/CD runners, containers, build chains, and other inter-op issues... all for a few simple DOM tests that I could've written in an afternoon, in the same repo. /cry
The person they hired to write those tests with me was also Indian, and she only knew Java too. She was brilliant and extremely hard-working, and the choice of stack wasn't her fault. Just kinda sucks that she was put into that situation.
Overall, it didn't really change my perception of Indian coworkers, but it certainly made me hate Java. I didn't really like Java before that job (too much bloat), but after... oh boy... it is probably at the top of my "never again" list now, alongside Drupal.
Java is really over prevalent in my circle. This leads to interviewers/companies expecting Java fluency. This means either join the boat or not get job opportunities. Vicious circle.
I'm not a Java fan but alas have to give up.
Almost all graduates come from tier 3 colleges, which is a name for every college that isn't in the top 5%. These colleges often churn out massively overpopulated courses with too many seats, which was partly responsible for the campus placement crisis we are facing now.
Consequently professors employed by such institutions often have to min max for total covered content. A certain course in a well known tier 3 college taught React without first introducing HTML or javascript, in an introductory lecture.