It appears that DevOps may be a symptom of a bigger problem. The bigger problem? Java.

Java development -- with a giant framework like Spring -- seems to accrete layers and layers of stuff. And more stuff. And bonus stuff on top the the excess stuff.

The in-house framework that's used on …

See this: http://www.moschetti.org

Attended a meeting with Buzz. Not stated in his blog (in an obvious way) was something he said about not being a fan of big frameworks. I didn't write down his punchline, but it was a pretty pithy summary of the framework tradeoff.

IIRC …