Summary
In the ongoing quest to maximize our productivity as developers or to maximize our teams’ productivity as tech leaders or architects, we need to get day 0 exactly right. Bad decisions or development mistakes made on day 0 will continue to bear their bitter, rotten fruit year after year.
The best way to avoid these costly day-0 mistakes is to begin from a starting point that we know has been successful in the past and use it as a jumping-off point for future development. Application Accelerator for VMware Tanzu, Spring Boot, and the Steeltoe framework provide a simple, repeatable baseline for codifying these starting points and making teams successful from the outset.
Furthermore, production-grade, enterprise-ready development frameworks don’t appear overnight. Frameworks such as Spring and .NET + Steeltoe are battle-hardened based on decades of lessons learned. The best app accelerators use the best underlying frameworks and they’re all part of the...