Hotel restaurant. The HR lady was giving my brother shit for not wearing safety shoes in the kitchen. She was saying this while in the kitchen wearing heels.

She picked the wrong day. Bro wasn’t having it.

“What the FUCK are you doing in here then!? Get out of my FUCKING kitchen!”

Everyone had been feeling it… He spoke for all of us.

Certs are a waste of time tbh. If you have 8 years of experience, you should have more than enough to fill out a resume already.

An AWS cert is almost certainly even more useless for you specifically unless you wanted to get into devops/sre and do systems design. I have been in sre for a very long time and have never even heard of anyone writing tooling in Java. That section of the industry is entirely dominated by go, python, and (more often than anything else) bash for really quick automation.

Compared to what?

When you have it built, throw it in a container and run it in Lambda. You’ll be able to run it anywhere if you package as a container.

Newegg used to sell this one dumb phone for like $12. Completely unbranded garbage but it made calls and did sms.

My brother used to lose his phone or drop it in the toilet constantly. We had like 3 or 4 of that crappy phone just because he kept doing stupid stuff.

I got a galaxy watch thinking I’d do all these cool things with it. Ultimately I only used it to set alarms to let me know my tea is ready…

I only really use the mechanical watch now.

Woops!

I actually really like The Night Before. That Joe Seth Rogan movie. It’s the only one I’ve been rewatching over the last few years.

Higher’d’n AC.

As a counter balance to that though, interviewers need to understand what they are hiring for and tailor the questions asked to those requirements.

For example, there is genuinely very little coding required of an SRE these days but EVERY job interview wants you to do some leetcode style algorithm design… Since containers took over, the times I have used anything beyond relatively unremarkable bash scripts is exceptionally small. It’s extremely unlikely that I will be responsible for a task that is so dependent on performance that I need to design a perfect O(1) algorithm. On terraform though, I’m a fucking surgeon.

SRE specifically should HEAVILY focus on system design and almost all other things should have much much less priority… I’ve failed plenty of skill assessments just because of the code though.

Containerization (even for small things) makes modern infrastructure a LOT easier.

No. Just change the location.

Meetup.com is how you get to know people in Tokyo. I lived there for a few years and this was extremely popular.

Have you looked into getting a psych evaluation?

Yeah I am deep in the kube world as well. Since this industry-wide shift started happening, I feel like I write essentially no code anymore outside of bash scripts to glue things together. It’s essential but it’s not a replacement.

This cartoon seemed to me to be suggesting that you could implement the behavior of kube with bash. That’s obviously absurd.

This is dumb.

You could do all that stuff with bash scripts but it would be a management nightmare. You’d also be completely reinventing the wheel.

If anyone seriously thinks this is a good idea, please post your LinkedIn so I know to never hire you.

Or maybe OP is just making shit up.

From a cloud infrastructure perspective, I would take Google Cloud over AWS or Azure any day of the week… For GKE alone (Google’s kubernetes product) it’s worth moving to them.

Most other things are fine but mostly because there aren’t any serious competition… Maps, Android, YouTube… GMail is fine but I use FastMail and Proton as well. Drive works when sending things to other people but for personal stuff I use the Synology. Haven’t used search in years.

This is the right answer. Help Desk is by far the right entry point.

Blogs, news for each of the countries I spend time in, tech industry stuff, podcasts, torrent feeds, etc…