Java is the most matured modern programming language for backend. However, rust, nodejs and golang are slowly filling up the niche use cases that java could not excel at.

Acceptance criteria is powerful for detailing out user story. Combining it with relevant information from five information component would potentialy reduce the gap between software delivery team and business user.

Metabase is business intelligence (BI) tools that support various database including RDBMS(relational database management system) with rigid and solid schema who can hold small to medium sized data until noSQL based big data database such as google big query or GCP. Metabase offer data low code slice and dice services as well as sql based analytics.

Azure virtual machine scale sets or often called as VMSS is a service to centrally manage and orchestrate multiple identical virtual machine. Deployment of single images can be automatically executed into several virtual machine on various zones or region. Saving tons of time and operation resources.

Cloudflare worker and pages is a a static web hosting services that can be integrated with cloudflare global CDN(content delivery network) and support firebase web socket connection.

Various strategy can be applied on consulting industry in order to surive the lay off wave or even just for keeping mental/physical health intact during the day to day engagement. Networking is one of the key strategy, however its not enough. More planning is required to fully minimize the risk.