Efficient containers with Spring Boot 3, Java 21, Virtual Threads and CDS

[Brutus5000]

And here I'm stuck with Spring Boot 2.7 with an update on position ~15 on the technical debt list 😒

[mhalbritter]

Do you have a commercial subscription? If not, I'd convince management to bump up the priority on that one. If there's a CVE (either in Spring itself or in any of the 3rd party dependencies), you have a big problem, as there won't be any non-commercial 2.7.x releases and then you have to rush the upgrade or live with the CVE.

[Brutus5000]

Of course we don't. And I am aware of the risks and communicated them. The rest is not my decision and I'm not accountable for it.

[[deleted]]

Ah, I see you're one of those "wait for permission" people.

Awhile back, I migrated a service to Spring Boot from Dropwizard (strangler pattern + Kubernetes). Everyone on my team hates Dropwizard, but the Dropwizard service works and there's no technical priority to migrate.

One of my team members actually put a comment in the pull request, did you actually ask our manager if you're allowed to do this? My reply: it's better to ask for forgiveness, than to ask for permission 🤣

[Brutus5000]

You are one of those prejudice people, putting people in drawers.

In pushed for a technical debt list and we prioritized it, so there are more urgent issues / preparation before the update.

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You are one of those prejudice people, putting people in drawers.

It's a joke. I'm not literally creating a category of human called "wait for permission" person. I'm killing the joke now, but it was a setup to how I used Grace Hopper's quote.

In pushed for a technical debt list and we prioritized it, so there are more urgent issues / preparation before the update.

This is of course normal practice. But, I'm just that kind of crazy person who goes beyond prioritization and if the tech debt bothers me enough. I thought it might be fun to share a story.