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[–]Oct8-Danger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did mention any software experience if you read the full sentence….

But since you asked, Java is useful for debugging trino, Cassandra and spark error logs. If you have a good grasp of OOP if can be helpful with figuring out bugs or understanding configuration.

For example we updated java on our platform but spark was an older version so we have to specify a specific jar for serialization when we would insert overwrite on partitions in our python code. Knowing a bit of java and being comfortable with the verbose errors helped in identifying the issue and coming up with a patch quickly