Spring/Java

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* It's only magic when it actually works. The rest of the time it's a 92 call
stack-trace to a null pointer exception
in some obscure library that was inadvertently loaded as a transitive dependency
of some stupid conflicting thing
injected by some bean configured by some idiot who left the company 2 years
before you joined that was never removed
because the complexity frightened everyone that looked at it and nobody left has
any idea how it ever worked in the first place.

* So the Java world has been using app containers for nearly 2 decades (Java
servlet containers - tomcat, WebSphere etc.,) and now
whole world is catching on and moving towards containers for non Java apps also
by way of Docker containers... so then someone at
Spring has a brain fart and says "Whoah, hang on, let's turn it all inside out
and embed the container (in this case Tomcat or Jetty) inside the app!

* I've heard from a Harvard mathematician that if you zoom in even deeper (and I
mean, if you continue zooming in at this speed for a period of years to decades)
you will eventually zoom into a crude image of the Earth, and then into the
country you live in, then your city, then your street, then your house, and
eventually
you'll see the back of your head and the screen you're watching this very same
video on. Then you'll see yourself turn around and stare right back at you through
the screen. Feeling curious, you will do the same and see someone else staring
back down at you through a giant screen above the Earth. The person you see will be
you.
Could you believe it? - about mandrelbrot set