There are few technologies I despise more than Spring. Well, maybe OSGi. Also, hibernate and JPA. I've lost so many hours of my life fighting those things.
I try to stick to Clojure for most of my JVM-ing these days. Right now I've got this one large Java/Spring-boot service I've inherited sitting in the middle of an otherwise micro-services-based architecture built using Clojure/ring and Python/flask services (for the ML stuff). I keep thinking about how I want to start calving off chunks of that thing to re-implement in something not Java/Spring.
Because Spring magic is great until it's not. And then you're banging your head against your desk for a week chasing down some weird heisenbug related to some nonsensical Spring behavior. And there's no sense of accomplishment when you finally resolve it, because the entire exercise only served to increase your esoteric knowledge of Spring, which you never wanted to deal with in the first place.
I try to stick to Clojure for most of my JVM-ing these days. Right now I've got this one large Java/Spring-boot service I've inherited sitting in the middle of an otherwise micro-services-based architecture built using Clojure/ring and Python/flask services (for the ML stuff). I keep thinking about how I want to start calving off chunks of that thing to re-implement in something not Java/Spring.
Because Spring magic is great until it's not. And then you're banging your head against your desk for a week chasing down some weird heisenbug related to some nonsensical Spring behavior. And there's no sense of accomplishment when you finally resolve it, because the entire exercise only served to increase your esoteric knowledge of Spring, which you never wanted to deal with in the first place.