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- license change -> restricting features behind a paid tier (https://spring.io/blog/2025/04/21/spring-cloud-data-flow-com...)

- reducing headcount of people -> slow security patching + not following industry standards

- all eggs in one basket :)

- cut from major clouds (Azure Spring apps)

The second highest risk is using USA based cloud with 66/100.

The first one was using Spring Boot everywhere 77/100. Till the end of 2025 we need to have migration path to something else with 2 PoCs done.

>is not-Windows your dev environment?

Rider & VS Code.

>do you plan to use another db than SQL Server?

PostgreSQL and SQLite are working great.

>do you plan to deploy with containers?

Did you try .net 8.

>do you plan to deploy outside of Azure?

All big cloud providers have their own docs for .NET

Even more filters...

And the price is around 1400 eur.

There is no alternative below 1000 EUR.

BE: .NET or Spring Boot

Database: SQLite (eventually PostgreSQL in Docker container)

Hosting: Hetzner

https://web.archive.org/web/20230614053908/http://bookofhook...

This changed me from being lazy smartass to the very productive team lead.

What have you been using before?

- Still supported on latest .NET

- Most feature rich and battle tested

- Good documentation

- You will learn XAML which can be later used once when WinUI 3.0 is more mature (at least another 5,6 years will be needed with their current development velocity)

PS.

XAML is a bit different but similiar enoguh between WPF and WinUI.

Of course it depends on what type of application.

>you can more easily get away with no leetcode and no take home.

Current rate in the last three months is around 75%. (which demands LC or take home)

I have two kids, couple family friends, one hobby and I like to watch basketball and old movies. Outside of work I spend some time here and couple subreddits. I do not have time for the side projects on GitHub or to prepare for silly LC tests. I do not have time to create LinkedIn account and keep it updated.

I have CV with average EU Uni and uninterrupted 16 years across many different domains and with different tech stacks.

I refuse to do following:

- LC tests

- take home.

On another hand we can have interview for 6 hours about your business domain or system design.

All these ideas just show how immature you are.

My advice is to find real problem that people have in that region and try to solve it.

If you need replication go with MySQL.

Could you recommend one of these?

I am using both PostgreSQL and MSSQL in the production since 2003 and they are simply not in the same league. Especially tooling around MSSQL is miles ahead.