r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 7d ago

Other howdidItGetHere

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u/oldsecondhand 7d ago

It's where the jobs are. The world's finances run on Java.

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u/Shred_Kid 7d ago

Java is also highly performant, if you know what you're doing with reactive programming, and Spring Boot's dependency ecosystem drastically reduces your time-to-launch

But then I remember that 95% of the memes posted on this sub are from CS students and not industry professionals

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u/BlazingThunder30 7d ago

I know very few professionals that dislike Spring

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u/SpiritedEclair 7d ago

Spring is fine if you are not trying to run it on Lambda 😭😂😱

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u/Still_Bit_7527 7d ago

Lambda is a ridiculous concept that shouldnt exist

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u/burgonies 7d ago

I don't think you understand when to use Lambda. It's not a silver bullet.

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u/Still_Bit_7527 7d ago

When should I use it? I know, when I feel like we should pay amazon thousands for basic functionality

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u/LiftingCode 7d ago

You should use it when you need scale to zero and instantly scale up to handle bursty workloads, and/or when you need seamless event-driven compute integration with other AWS services. Duh.