Yeah technology stacks have gotten completely out of hand over the decades. My current concoction is here:

https://github.com/Clay-Ferguson/quantizr

Java+SpringBoot+Docker

I think I'm "doing it right", but like religions no one's is provably correct.

The younger kids are saying: "Meh, we'll just run NodeJS on the server, so we can ignore the J2EE mess the previous generation created since they're older and therefore dumber than us."