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gertrundetoday at 9:48 AM1 replyview on HN

er... surely it's a Java application server?

(i.e. in the same space as Jboss/Wildfly, WebSphere, etc)

Historically, it was also the reference implementation application server for J2EE.


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chasd00today at 12:45 PM

I thought that was Tomcat or was Tomcat just the servlet reference implementation, i can't remember. App servers like Glassfish were what operations people used before the concept of "devops". Developers wrote the code and admins/ops deployed the code on app servers like Glassfish. Devops was supposed to put developers in charge of the whole stack but every enterprise i've seen have a dedicated devops team that manages AWS/Azure/GCP and separate developer teams who write the code. So it's pretty much the same it's always been ironically.

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