I find it insane to have to wait minutes to see the changes and to iterate.
i did devops between 2015 & 2025 and got used to the cadence of waiting between 15 & 180 minutes for testing/production pipelines to finish vetting the work i submitted to them.
i went back to doing IT last year and setup similar pipelines to update the code base my predecessor left behind and my new boss expressed the same consternation about waiting for your changes to iterate.
i’m thankful for it because it gives me 30-ish minute windows to browse and annoy people on lemmy throughout the day. lol
back around 2010, i did IT at a place that got a new isilon cluster to alleviate storage space woes with our netapps and the software engineers used this comic to make fun of the work we did when it caused a bottleneck over the network. lol
Gosh. I remember working with this back in 2019 and earlier. Our legacy products ran on it. I remember a new service we made (before Spring Boot really took off) used TomCat. It was so much easier to mess with. I asked why we don’t use that for our main product. Imagine my surprise when they said we actually used to.
I’m sure they had their reasons, I was a younger dev at the time and didn’t have insight into why they changed it. But still. Everything is so simple now. Java to run your jar. Your jar has your server built in. Done. And that’s not even including containerization.
I do miss Jenkins though. GitHub Actions seems to be the new hotness. Maybe I just don’t have the muscle memory yet, but it can be annoying.
Yeah, not gonna miss app servers. I do find the JVM was kind of made for a different era though. It’s basically designed to act like a VM on top of which all your apps run. So, startup time isn’t really a problem, and it wants to grab as much memory as it can by default. But nowadays everybody just makes small self contained apps that you can scale horizontally, so this whole model the JVM is tailored for isn’t really used outside big enterprise. And Jenkins was alight, I used to use it back in the day too. For the most part, I do find GitHub actions are an improvement though. You just make a script and magic happens.
i did devops between 2015 & 2025 and got used to the cadence of waiting between 15 & 180 minutes for testing/production pipelines to finish vetting the work i submitted to them.
i went back to doing IT last year and setup similar pipelines to update the code base my predecessor left behind and my new boss expressed the same consternation about waiting for your changes to iterate.
i’m thankful for it because it gives me 30-ish minute windows to browse and annoy people on lemmy throughout the day. lol
https://xkcd.com/303/
this comic will forever make me flinch. lol
back around 2010, i did IT at a place that got a new isilon cluster to alleviate storage space woes with our netapps and the software engineers used this comic to make fun of the work we did when it caused a bottleneck over the network. lol
haha this reminds me of my days working with websphere :)
indeed
Gosh. I remember working with this back in 2019 and earlier. Our legacy products ran on it. I remember a new service we made (before Spring Boot really took off) used TomCat. It was so much easier to mess with. I asked why we don’t use that for our main product. Imagine my surprise when they said we actually used to.
I’m sure they had their reasons, I was a younger dev at the time and didn’t have insight into why they changed it. But still. Everything is so simple now. Java to run your jar. Your jar has your server built in. Done. And that’s not even including containerization.
I do miss Jenkins though. GitHub Actions seems to be the new hotness. Maybe I just don’t have the muscle memory yet, but it can be annoying.
Yeah, not gonna miss app servers. I do find the JVM was kind of made for a different era though. It’s basically designed to act like a VM on top of which all your apps run. So, startup time isn’t really a problem, and it wants to grab as much memory as it can by default. But nowadays everybody just makes small self contained apps that you can scale horizontally, so this whole model the JVM is tailored for isn’t really used outside big enterprise. And Jenkins was alight, I used to use it back in the day too. For the most part, I do find GitHub actions are an improvement though. You just make a script and magic happens.