Let me share a small fun story (of making an application in an hour, not months).
At one large insurance company in my role as an architect I have tried to convince people we need Elasticsearch to speed up free-form queries to our database containing information about hundreds of millions of people and their contracts. That database was Oracle and so not really amenable to completely arbitrary queries.
I was immediately shot down that the project will take huge amount of time and effort to complete and so is completely off the table.
So I came up with fun plan. I set up an hour-long meeting which was supposed to be my last chance to pitch the project.
Rather than present slides and extol virtues of Elasticsearch, I decided to WRITE THE APPLICATION DURING THE MEETING, FROM SCRATCH.
And that's what I did. I came to the meeting, set my laptop, connected projector, put some music on, and I wrote the entire service from scratch and had time to spare to present how it works.
I cheated a little bit, of course. That 1h meeting was well rehearsed. I spent entire week preparing, finding better ways to do stuff and retrying entire process dozens of times.
I used JHipster to generate 90% of the service and the rest was just tiny bit of well thought glue code.
Unfortunately, this did not sit well with couple of people whom I made complete mockery of. I had to leave soon after.
At one large insurance company in my role as an architect I have tried to convince people we need Elasticsearch to speed up free-form queries to our database containing information about hundreds of millions of people and their contracts. That database was Oracle and so not really amenable to completely arbitrary queries.
I was immediately shot down that the project will take huge amount of time and effort to complete and so is completely off the table.
So I came up with fun plan. I set up an hour-long meeting which was supposed to be my last chance to pitch the project.
Rather than present slides and extol virtues of Elasticsearch, I decided to WRITE THE APPLICATION DURING THE MEETING, FROM SCRATCH.
And that's what I did. I came to the meeting, set my laptop, connected projector, put some music on, and I wrote the entire service from scratch and had time to spare to present how it works.
I cheated a little bit, of course. That 1h meeting was well rehearsed. I spent entire week preparing, finding better ways to do stuff and retrying entire process dozens of times.
I used JHipster to generate 90% of the service and the rest was just tiny bit of well thought glue code.
Unfortunately, this did not sit well with couple of people whom I made complete mockery of. I had to leave soon after.