Wolters Kluwer

  Wolters Kluwer So, I’ve started at Wolters Kluwer—weird name, I know. I was brought on as a Perl dev (backend, build/release, Linux admin), but suddenly I’m being tossed into the deep end of a super complex frontend. The real kicker? Everyone assumes I’m already a pro at this stuff. I never claimed to be, but the pressure is definitely on. Here’s the "short" list of things they expect me to just know , even though I’ve barely touched most of them: The Frontend Maze: JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, SPAs, route handlers, and event listeners. The "Ovid" Ecosystem: It’s a massive app with a million ways to do the same thing. If you don't know the exact "UI path flow," you’re just chasing ghosts. The Tooling: Black Duck, Google Analytics, Open Telemetry, and Jenkins pipelines. The Meta Stuff: JIRA's crazy process flows (there are like 20 "similar" dropdown options for one task), Redis, and deep HTML/template structures that go way beyond basic...