Honestly, the person should spend their time of fixing their shit instead of writing blog posts.

I find intellij a great IDE, modern frameworks are fun to use, ai helps me doing things i don't want to do or things i just need (like generate a good README.md for the other people).

Containers are great and mine build fast.

My Startup has a ha setup with self healing tx to k8s and everything is in code so i don't need to worry to backup some random config files.

Hardware has never been that cheap. NVMs, RAM and Compute. A modern laptop today has a brilliant display, quite, can run everything, long batterytime.

Traffic? No brainer.

Websphere was a monster with shitty features. I remember when finally all the JEE Servers had a startup time of just a few seconds instead of minutes. RAM got finally cheap enough that you were able to run eclipse, webserver etc. locally.

Java was verbose, a lot more verbose than today.

JQuery was everywere.