This is a true story, currently unfolding. (Thankfully, not where I work.)
My friend “Paul” works at a large international company in a small developer team that builds web applications. The technology stack is J2EE, including Spring and Hibernate in the mix.
Unfortunately, except for Paul and a coworker, most of the team is underskilled [...]

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