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This sounds like a flashback to J2EE. Which I know is still alive and well. Banks, insurance companies and the tax agency do not much care for fancy new stuff,

by sandos 9mo ago

This sounds like a flashback to J2EE. Which I know is still alive and well. Banks, insurance companies and the tax agency do not much care for fancy new stuff, but that it works.

pjmlp 9mo ago
Yep, Fortune 500 enterprise consulting, boring technology that pays the bills. Java, .NET, C++, nodejs, Sitecore, Adobe Experience Manager, Optimizely, SAP, Dynamics, headless CMSes,...
- sanderjd 9mo ago
  Never felt so old, seeing nodejs in a list of old boring stuff.
  - pjmlp 9mo ago
    Yeah, it is on the edge, but unavoidable in many Web projects.
chasd00 9mo ago
I describe these techs like garbage trucks. No one likes to see them but they’re there every day doing a decent part of what it takes to hold society together hah.
- pjmlp 9mo ago
  Scott Hanselman has a good term for all these kind of jobs, the dark matter developers. https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-unseen-99 https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-un...