The tragedy I see these days is that building scalable services is the height of tech fashion, and every engineer wants a fashionable CV that will help her get the next job. Nobody has ever gotten a job with a CV that said “I don’t know AWS and Kubernetes, but I know how to fulfill all your SLAs for a $100/mo infra bill,” because every hiring manager has stopped reading before the comma, and that engineer has starved to death.
— Source: Why is everything so scalable?
Oh, yes, and I’m that guy! I’m over six years (at least) into this, and I have no idea about AWS and Kubernetes so far. Well, I know k8s, but mostly theoretically, and I have no real opportunity to master that knowledge. Same with AWS. And I’m on that side that does not think it’s an issue. I’m pretty good with computers though. My servers