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Yesterday I caught up with an old friend from where I grew up, for the first time in 12 years. He said many good things about Kubernetes. He's working for a Sw
by peterburkimsher 7y ago
Yesterday I caught up with an old friend from where I grew up, for the first time in 12 years. He said many good things about Kubernetes.
He's working for a Swiss bank, and managing an ops team. In his case, I think k8s makes sense.
Then there's me. Doing remote work, struggling to sort out visas, wishing I could have his kind of life and stability, wondering how it all went wrong. To get a job like his requires experience in Kubernetes, Oracle, etc. I can't get that kind of experience with side projects.
"dave jumping on the latest tech trend" is probably trying to build up his résumé, rather than actually help the company. As someone who needs to build up his own résumé, what do you suggest to gain experience in this kind of technology? I don't want to intentionally deceive the company to let me try it when I know they don't need it. But I know that I need to learn it somehow.
- mirceal 7y agothere is more than one type of dave. there is the “jump on it, run it in production and make it the next guy’s problem dave” and there is the “play with it to learn what it is in a safe context/env dave”. you can definitely stay up-to-date with tech without betting the farm on it. 2nd thought is that as an employer you don’t want one trick ponies. You want people that understand the fundamentals and can learn and adapt. i will take a person that has good fundamentals, is curios and constantly learning over a person that knows a technology every day of the week.