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I understand how k8s seduces people: sysadmins feels like "let's deliver this to developers then they'll be autonomous", developers feels like "oh cool, i'm fre
by ctoinneedofhelp 8y ago
I understand how k8s seduces people: sysadmins feels like "let's deliver this to developers then they'll be autonomous", developers feels like "oh cool, i'm free to run my containers". That's cool for small web shops with a lot of web services. But much less cool when you want to control/understand what's running within those containers. Then you need a lot of CI engineering with precise access control.
That said, I couldn't care less about all that container hype. Long running web services are <0.01% of our workload.
You confirm my feeling that I should now target good software engineers and teach them how to program the infrastructure. But how would you make them interested in infrastructure? My understanding is that they want to be exposed to the business, closer to where the money is, to get more exposure. And that's normal, that's what smart people do to leverage their skills.
You're right I should target my tech stack open source communities. I thought about it so many times. But I just don't know how to communicate what I want without being classified as a spammer. So I never did it. ;)
- mattbillenstein 8y agoYeah, not an easy task - some of them have job boards or you can do the usual digging keyword search on LinkedIn. I dislike LinkedIn, but everyone is on there and being solicited about job opportunities is pretty much the norm.
- ctoinneedofhelp 8y agoI did a lot of hunt on LinkedIn with keywords like Terraform, Python and Puppet. I found that guy here. But years later, I have doubts about LinkedIn efficiency, as most good SWE I found through head hunters did not have the Python keyword on their profile even when they rock at it. Now I believe LinkedIn is only useful to target people who are good at self-marketing.