I’ve been a coder for over two decades, and here’s my take on this. First, good employers want smart engineers, and bet that they can learn things quickly. You

I’ve been a coder for over two decades, and here’s my take on this. First, good employers want smart engineers, and bet that they can learn things quickly. You don’t need to have N years of experience with Kubernetes. Second, most of your jobs later in your career will either come through your network, or will decide on you based on references from your network. Your network is the most import thing. Third, I’ve seen “new hot technologies” come and go without me ever learning them. Many are fads, you don’t need to learn them all, or even most of them. BUT, you do need to continuously learn, and ideally be able to display that in some way.