The Script That Refused to Stay Small

It started, as these things often do, with a single process running on a single machine in a server room nobody liked visiting. The system took in shipment requests, enriched them with a few heuristics, and spat out routing hints. Nothing fancy, just enough logic to save operations teams a few hours a day, and Marta built it on her own as a side project. Marta wasn’t new to Java, she had spent a few months working in a microservices project in Spring and liked the serverless functional-style thinking: small transformations composed together. She had enough scar-tissue by now having experienced the inevitable issues with Spring and wanted to experiment with Quarkus anyway. She picked TPF because, on top of featuring a canvas UI to design the pipeline, she got the complete app's scaffolding as a pure Quarkus project. She could keep developing on her IDE as usual, only with the addition of the Quarkus environment plugin. And, she got to use Dev Services which she also wanted to try. Her c