Great points. I was reminded about a period of close to ten years when “my stack” was Apache Tomcat with servlets and JSP. I would handle background tasks in threads initialized in servlet init methods. For me it was a universal platform for anything I was required to develop and deploy.
I was in Chicago last month and had breakfast with an old customer (I had never met him in person even though I did a ton of work for him between 2000 and 2006). One of my tasks for him was writing a Sharepoint clone that ran for five years totally unattended by his ops team. After five years they ran out of disk space and did a quick migration to a larger server. My customer thought that in five years they had never restarted to system or rebooted the server (yikes!, no security updates?).
I was in Chicago last month and had breakfast with an old customer (I had never met him in person even though I did a ton of work for him between 2000 and 2006). One of my tasks for him was writing a Sharepoint clone that ran for five years totally unattended by his ops team. After five years they ran out of disk space and did a quick migration to a larger server. My customer thought that in five years they had never restarted to system or rebooted the server (yikes!, no security updates?).