I don’t know where you’re from but in my European country the banks are actually verifying if you are able to reimburse and you cannot borrow above some threshold. Maybe that explains why the prices increases are lower here ?

Somehow I miss those days. Now you need weeks of training to understand the black magic behind all the build/deployment stuff in whatever cloud provider your company decided to use…

And the management not getting why it takes so long to « just update some version numbers in Pom.xml files »…

Can we talk about annotations which are broken when you upgrade spring boot ? You are asked to upgrade some old application to the newest version of spring boot, application that you discover on the spot, the application does not work anymore after the upgrade, and you have to go through 10 intermediate upgrade guides to discover what could possibly be wrong ?