Java

Here’s how not to rewrite your system. Again. What I Actually Do (When I’m Not Yelling at Legacy Code) I’ve spent 20 years in the trenches of enterprise Java, EJB nightmares, and leadership roles trying to keep developer teams sane and systems stable. These days, I help teams modernize without melting down, fix processes that quietly ruin morale, and build software that won’t collapse under its own cleverness. ...

If you’ve ever deployed an EAR with a 12,000-line ejb-jar.xml, you deserve hazard pay. When one more JNDI lookup breaks you. For many of us still maintaining legacy Java EE systems, enterprise Java isn’t about sleek microservices or reactive streams. It’s about @RemoteHome , classloader gymnastics, and figuring out why a bean that compiles cleanly still can’t be looked up at runtime because it wasn’t bound under the “right” flavor of java:global. ...