You did not factor in the public opinion here. Already in Europe a mass wave of boycotting American products is shaping up. The same in Canada. It's different this time.
I’m in the same boat. To me it’s bad UX. I can never find anything and it just looks way too complex to use. It shouldn’t be this way but as someone that uses Microsoft Entra, I guess I’m not surprised.
> I hate to say it, but I think they will likely have to lose territory. I
I don't think it's territory what Putin wants. Even without its current territories, if Ukraine turns out to be successful and recover in the next 10 years, what will this mean to the Russian population? A total and absolute surrender of Ukraine is the end goal. No EU, no NATO, just another vassal-president and things go on like they were before 2022, but this time with half-destroyed country.
This war should have never started, I actually agree with Trump on this. But for that to happen, NATO should have entered Ukraine the first week after Putin did. And to those in Europe that argue against it, I would only say - are we better off now?
Currently working on the side on Java libraries that provide access to Apple's mobile device management service APIs like the automated device enrollment and app and book management services: https://github.com/petarov/apple-mdm-clients
I had this written in Kotlin several years ago but now I want to do it all in Java, use as little 3rd party deps as possible and add more extensive unit testing.
Something of an alternative to log4j, yes. On every project I've worked on, the vast majority of logs are useless. They're either too verbose, or not verbose enough. It's never clear who they're meant for. Log levels are very hard to get right. Is this really a warning? Or an error? Should someone do something? And when?
So I'm experimenting with ways of making it easier to write useful logs.
The Schwarz Group (the owner of Lidl) have produced STACKIT, which afaik is supposed to be the European AWS. Not sure what the long-term strategy is there, but I think the idea was exactly to offer European solutions as opposed to Microsoft Azure and AWS.
This isn't really true. It depends on the type of person you are and also in which European country you are in. In both Western and Eastern Europe I've had colleagues that would stop everything they do at 5 pm. and leave and colleagues that would stay with me until 8 pm. fixing a bug.
Agree with everything that you wrote. The saddest thing is the job market. It would not be a lie to say the 90% of the jobs list Spring/Boot as a requirement. It's like a framework equals the whole language. This cannot be a good sign. I'm thankful enough to have around 2 decades of Java experience without touching anything named Spring and boy I can tell you I have been having lots of fun with Java. Using Vert.x right now and I like it a lot.
I don't do web stuff (and hopefully that can stay that way), so I've managed to avoid a lot of Spring stuff, but I am stuck using Spring Streams for some Kafka stuff I'm doing. I'm not going to lie, I don't love it, but that's mostly because it feels like all I do is write YAML files all day.
Vert.x is a lot of fun, and I've gotten pretty decent performance with its SQL libraries in particular, though I'm not sure I'm a huge fan of the EventBus. I've had better luck with LMAX Disruptor, at least for the data-processey stuff that I do.
But as I said, there's a ton of really great libraries in Java. The language isn't perfect, but Java 21 fixes a lot of my gripes, and it's nice to have a ton of really well-tested libraries to minimize how often you have to reinvent the wheel.
The whole thing smells of Russian tactics. They want to get rid of Zelenskyy and install their own puppet president in Ukraine. This will effectively bring back Ukraine to where it was pre-2022 but half-destroyed and with less territory. Then the Russians will just finish it off until they engulf it. Trump is just repeating Russian narratives. What a time.
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