Technology

When you start a new project in Java, obviously you are not going to use only plain vanilla Java. You usually need some libraries or frameworks to help you: maybe to connect to a database, maybe to setup some web service. There are many of these libraries and frameworks that have been around our Java ecosystem for a long time. They have helped evolved the Java ecosystem for decades. These libraries experiment with features and how to implement them in the best way. That generated a knowledge base that the developers of the language can later use to add those same features in the best way possible to the core language. ...

These past few weeks have been chaotic and as an exercise to seat and to drop anchor, I would like to make a brief summary of my job change. Why? metagato My main motivation to stop working on Emergya, despite the huge human and technical quality has been: The current situation in Spain doesn’t allow us to perform interesting projects, forcing companies to focus only on survival, with all the friction and discomfort that this generates. The challenge . And this, I think, is the main motivation. The enormous challenge of context switching to a new company, with a way of working so similar and yet so different. I need to see the world, learn, drink from other sources. Five years in Emergya have been wonderful, but I began to feel that it was becoming too small for me. Big fish on small pond or small fish on the ocean? GeoCat(s) . Can somebody refuse the possibility of becoming a geo-cat? Could there be a step beyond this? Can anyone not want to work with metacats (metadata, impossible to translate)? Of course, it has not been an easy decision. To me, Emergya is, and always will be, the company that received me openly and helped me take my first steps working, strengthening my belief that open source is the right path. Like it or not, Emergya is part of me and the title of “ex-emergyana” cannot be taken away from me. ...