Comment by Rajkumar on "What is the biggest challenge that you have faced in your career as a software developer?"

CommentWhat is the biggest challenge that you have faced in your career as a software developer?

Rajkumar

Fullstack Developer.

Mar 30, 2016

The biggest challenge for me, as a developer was to convince higher authorities to agree upon a technology! 2 years into my career, I had to develop a Travel Portal in Struts 1. I was like, Not Struts again! It was Spring's blossom period and it was gaining traction. I suggested Spring, stating the advantages of Spring over Struts, but company was so adamant, they said we do not want new technology now! After a lot of face-palming and explaining, I finally made CEO realize it is not a new technology, but rather improved Struts framework(I know, but what can I do to make them accept?). And he agreed. So we had brain-storming session, POC session and after a month, we were into development of travel portal in Spring.

But I couldn't replicate this success everywhere. Because people are too comfortable to see outside. If I suggest we'll do X module in Y language, they will look at me like a fool. For me, this was, and still IS biggest challenge! I have couple more, but I guess this eats them for breakfast.

Darshak Parikh

Front-end developer at Digitate

Mar 30, 2016

This is a real problem with the enterprise sector. Some companies and people can be not only cautious, but even outright skeptical about adopting anything less than five years old. As young developers, we often find this to be a hindrance in productivity. However, for huge monolithic projects, the management often has to ask themselves a number of questions before taking a step. I'm yet to see a solution that bridges this gap.

I worked in a product based company couple of years ago. There, they had good principle, which brought me into different world. Use the right tool for right job and you don't have to stick with any single language!! That thought process, opened up a world full of possibilities. Things I struggle to do in Java was lot easier by moving certain component to some other tool(E.x. Web Scraping using Scrapy!)! No more I have to think about How to do this in Java, but rather how to do it in X efficiently! But for corporate, even though they have all the power to do, they simply afraid not to indulge in such forbidden act, citing "This will break the whole application team!". After hearing this, I usually say "Okay!" and move on.

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