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by sswastioyono18 1693 days ago
I remember 6 years ago working on financial company. We have to deploy our app into weblogic and everytime we have to change something, we have to recompile it again and restart the app server. It took almost 5 - 10 minutes from start to ready to test. I thought that's because of the code but turns out all of our notebooks are using shit HDD. When I use my own PC with SSD, it flies with less than 3 minutes and after that I proposed something like hot reload which make the dev experience a lot nicer (in some cases, you do need to restart)

I don't know about them right now but before I resign, I told them "have you ever calculate how much time and money wasted by just restarting our app server for local dev? you probably should be worry about that because I believe you pay us to wait for app server comes online more than we develop a feature"

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In retrospect, I hadn't thought of that but it makes perfect sense. I believe I ended up accessing my laptop's local server from my personal mac, so it would have still been the bottleneck. I may have asked a similar question on my way out lol