Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?
by failbuffer on Monday February 06, 2023 @06:42PM
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"complexity merchants" - I love this term. It aptly describes beneficiaries of earlier IT fads. Remember UML? Remember WS-*? One could come up with a long list of technologies that were a bonanza for billing consultant hours but no so great for getting to solutions.
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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?
by switchbak on Monday February 06, 2023 @08:20PM
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The debacle that was J2EE is hard to top (but I'm sure some have!). I still have battle scars from OSGi.
CORBA belongs there. And perhaps even the semantic web stuff. Definitely XML!
SOAP, don't forget SOAP.
Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?
by hooverd on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @11:05AM
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SOAP is great when it works. Ingest a WSDL file and boom you've got an API client.
Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?
by 77pt77 on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @11:30AM
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And it almost never works if you use different frameworks.
Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?
by hooverd on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @11:46AM
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Heh, lot of emphasis on "when it works".
Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?
by jstrebel on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @03:45AM
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To be fair - J2EE (and its associated technologies like SOAP, XML) is a bit like alcohol. It is great when used in moderation, but gives you headaches when used excessively.
XML is great - if you don't believe it, then you might be interested in the pains of parsing JSON: http://seriot.ch/projects/parsing_json.html And don't get me started on YAML...