Re:Introducing Heka
by aphyr on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @02:28AM
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Huh. Most of the JVM shops I've worked at deploy apps as a monolithic fat .jar, built by their CI system, rather than trying to manage libraries on classpath.
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I think GP comment was referring to the JVM 'runtime'. which, to me, is less of a complication than the Python scenario.
On that note, Python packaging/deployment/repeatability is still a disaster. If you have code with dependencies on compiled C extensions, there are few good ways to deal with this in prod.
In summary, I think a lot of us find the idea of monolithic binaries appealing (perhaps even to an irrational degree, speaking for myself) because of issues suffered in the past. :)