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Ah yes, the bane of my existence, again: "senior" == "ability to build large distributed systems". I mean, hell, that's a great skill. I wish I had it. Then ag
by glangdale 7y ago
Ah yes, the bane of my existence, again: "senior" == "ability to build large distributed systems".
I mean, hell, that's a great skill. I wish I had it. Then again, I've seen people forced to build "large distributed systems" to solve things I can solve on one thread on one CPU because they don't have my skills. It's almost as if there is more than one skill that qualifies you as "senior" or something!
- jermaustin1 7y agoWhat is funny is I had spent more than half of my career working in the SEO space building "efficient," "high-scale," "single server" web applications, because people don't want to have to hire teams of people to manage all the different "-ops" that go along with the modern, micro-service, distributed architecture that is unnecessary 90% of the time. All of those quotes were because they are all relative terms. Like high-scale meaning 10,000s of concurrent users; and single server for the web app (separate database server, or utilities server for cron jobs, offline processing, etc); and efficient meaning nothing really.