I’m shocked actually that you don’t get this kind of mentorship where you work. What’s your Director doing? Not that we’ll be building spring apps but knowing where we, as an industry, have came from and tried things, we’ll avoid them in the future. My heart sinks when a good idea on paper, but bad IRL, get reimplemented 10 years later because someone didn’t bother to read history. That said, sometimes time is all you need for tech to catch up. Rarely that’s the case though.

So yeah, you’re welcome, thanks for coming to my grey beard tech talk. Ask your managers for more brown bag/lunch & learns from the older folks at your company - they have stories.