Best path to upgrade from Java Spring
Asking for a friend, who got stuck in midsize e-commerce company for last 6 years with tech stack like Spring framework. Now he's ready to move on, but uncertain on good strategy to get himself upgraded to something more sexy. He is a humble, honest and hard working guy with about 15 years of Java experience in high load e-commerce environment, but as many tech folks is an introvert, who cannot sell his skills at good terms.#java
What does he want to move onto? Java spring still dominates backend development
All I know is that he wants to stay with Java, but leave e-commerce.
Not sure if I’d call other frameworks an “upgrade” from Spring. It’s a really powerful framework, but it’s not new and trendy. If you want to work with node or Go or something look at start ups, enterprisey type work has a lot of Spring.
I guess real question here is whether he could increase his TC with current skills or just update resume with some buzzwords and weekend projects.
Yea you can get a job at any large company with spring experience, shoot for FAANG, they all use spring
There’s a ton of frameworks, it’s not like he needs to be an expert in 1-2, he needs to know the appropriate use cases and strengths and weaknesses of some of the major ones and invest some time into understanding the idiosyncrasies of each.
Spring boot is probably the best and easy to use JVM framework
Thanks, this is what he showed me yesterday, but I was not able to tell him anything. He demonstrated a sample app based on spring boot, mongodb, bootstrap. He said his current company does not want to switch to a new tech stack, so all he can do, is just play with new things during weekends.
Yeah. Spring boot is so awesome. It has solution to every God damn problem.
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