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Maybe they've read "Designing Data-Intensive applications". (Semi-joke)

• jsiaajdsdaa 5y ago
  To be fair, if you can actually implement the strategies within using real technology (AWS, your own kafka cluster etc), then you deserve to be senior.
• commandlinefan 5y ago
  I'm not sure I get the joke... that's actually a great book. Is the joke that they read that book and no other book?
  • nicholasjarnold 5y ago
    I read it like: Someone reads (skims?) that book, vaguely grasps the power of the concepts therein and then begins to treat everything like a nail that needs their hammer...failing to realize that many times and at many companies a simpler approach is good enough and the better choice for many definitions of better. That insistence to see everything as a nail once you learn the hammer is the hubris of the not-actually-senior software engineer. Those who can determine when the complex approaches are warranted versus when they are not is the real senior.
• notapenny 5y ago
  I'm reading it right now. Does that mean I get a pay raise? :D