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Re:Processing 40TB of code from 10M projects with a dedicate... by twic on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @09:24AM (#21125029)
> I was writing a Docker image built around Prometheus' jmx_exporter intended to be used as a mixin for our Java apps, and part of what I needed to do was provide a simple script to preprocess separate config files to produce the config used by jmx_exporter

Did you consider, and stop me if this suggestion is completely wild, Java?

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Re:Processing 40TB of code from 10M projects with a dedicate... by EdwardDiego on Monday October 07, 2019 @06:54AM (#21179375)
It's a script that merges YAML objects, there's an overhead to Java for this use case. I did consider Kotlin, but that same overhead of a POM, plugins to build capsules/fat jars etc.
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