> I haven't worked on large, scalable, fault-tolerant, kubernetes, kafka messaging, insane-state-of-the-art type of systems. All of that is mostly made up. The

> I haven't worked on large, scalable, fault-tolerant, kubernetes, kafka messaging, insane-state-of-the-art type of systems. All of that is mostly made up. The world runs on pretty mundane software. You seem to have internalized a few aspects of the software culture that are not constructive. Writing software is a fine job. No one can tell you if you have "progressed" enough or not and "hyped" technology should not be the metric you use to judge yourself.