Navigating the AI world order as a Java Dev - 1.0.0

Abhishek-Kesiraju — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:38:21 +0000

(Inserts background music. Into the Spider-Verse: Only one Spiderman, theme in Spotify)

Alright, let's do this one more time!
This is Abhishek, and I am a backend Java backend engineer in one of Canada's leading banks for 4 years now. For a very long time, I thought I was the only one in 2026, who is interested in building things using a language as old as Sun :P (Java humour - shout out to Sun Microsystems).

So often, it gets hard to find people to relate to because a lot are moving to supposedly cooler programming languages that are solving great things in the world.

Or, most older devs than me who are already established, and defeated the world with 20 years of Enterprise Dev Experience - contracting & billing 250$ hourly... don't honestly really care enough about AI!

But just like preserving any other culture, I like Java because it was something I got a chance to write out by hand as a CompSci student. Furthermore, I kind of found Java is refreshing itself to the new world - For people like me : )

Now, what do I have to offer?

First, I want to keep finding people I can relate to.

Second, improve my writing skills here over time, so maybe someday I could publish a book. Yes, it turns out people still read them...

Third,
*long deep breath *

I'd like to gain edge in AI while sharing it here by first building a simple Backend springboot app, and integrate front end to it. Deploy it somewhere - use the same project to learn how to integrate AI it with. Then Deploy it again!

Connect it to more & more systems, modernize it, connect it to systems I dont know, different clouds, vendors, containers ... may be convert to kotlin & deploy it again... (Hoping you get the point if you made it till here).

Ultimately, keep writing about it and make more friends over time!

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Navigating the AI world order as a Java Dev - 1.0.0