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    11. Be nice to your DevOps team by not using Maven or kitchen sink frameworks.

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      Maven tries to be the kitchen sink in a lot of ways - rigid requirements to use plugins instead of scripts, trying to wrap your scm, and even act as a docker wrapper... this is insanely...

      Maven tries to be the kitchen sink in a lot of ways - rigid requirements to use plugins instead of scripts, trying to wrap your scm, and even act as a docker wrapper... this is insanely frustrating and an anti-patter for the rest of the software space. I would rather find a new job than work at a company that keeps pumping out maven and jhipster apps. It doesn't play nice with CI, it uses an insanely ugly configuration (xml) and most java developers don't even really know what they are doing when they are using it.

      Making a micro-service api? You don't need jhipster or maven or even java - there are so many other better alternatives. Need something simple? flask. Need something performant? go. And there are so many others in between that won't give you a NullPointerException, require you to download the entire internet just to serve some serialized json, or make your devops team hate you.

      Interested in hearing rebuttals and other peoples alts and overall preferences.

      5 votes

    12. How do you manage your dotfiles?

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      This area is so much more complex than I first expected, with options like your basic manual cp or symlinks, stow, yadm, homeshick, or hacking together some bash yourself. What do you use?

      23 votes