Comment by sandos
3 days ago
This sounds like a flashback to J2EE. Which I know is still alive and well. Banks, insurance companies and the tax agency do not much care for fancy new stuff, but that it works.
3 days ago
This sounds like a flashback to J2EE. Which I know is still alive and well. Banks, insurance companies and the tax agency do not much care for fancy new stuff, but that it works.
I describe these techs like garbage trucks. No one likes to see them but they’re there every day doing a decent part of what it takes to hold society together hah.
Scott Hanselman has a good term for all these kind of jobs, the dark matter developers.
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-un...
Yep, Fortune 500 enterprise consulting, boring technology that pays the bills.
Java, .NET, C++, nodejs, Sitecore, Adobe Experience Manager, Optimizely, SAP, Dynamics, headless CMSes,...
Never felt so old, seeing nodejs in a list of old boring stuff.
Yeah, it is on the edge, but unavoidable in many Web projects.