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JSF is not my favorite, and I probably wouldn’t use Java for front end applications.

That being said, I think that there is a great ecosystem of great software and tools written for Java. I like learning new languages and techniques, but I find Java is suitable for many things today.

Honestly hacker news is the wrong place to ask questions about Java. There is lots of biased opinions with little experience using Java.

Consider how mortgage derivatives relate to the underlying asset. It feels like crypto has made credit default swaps look like a child’s toy. They say it’s all on the chain, but there are a lot of chains.

I think this is a good summary, and it even gets more complicated if you start using the DAX cache. Your read/write provisioning for DAX is totally different than the underlying dynamodb tables. The write throughput for Dax is limited by the size of the master node in the cluster. Can you say bottleneck?

I worked as an electronic tech back repairing 4/5ESS switches. Those things were built like tanks.

Vernon Vinge True Names. It’s prophetic.

Unix network programming. Stevens brought sockets to the masses and helped launch the internet as we know it.

Do you mean ads?

I second this. A Timeless Way of Building is a beautiful book.

Miss both of these authors

Turns out that the productivity gain came from the fact that they wrote less code. Call me cynical.

I remember reading the white paper back in the 90s and being so excited. It’s been a good run!