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I don't find it exhausting, I find it exhilarating. After years of proving myself, earning trust and strategical positioning I am finally leading a system th

I don't find it exhausting, I find it *exhilarating*. After years of proving myself, earning trust and strategical positioning I am finally leading a system that will support millions of requests per second. I love my job and this is the most intellectually stimulating activity I have done in a long while. I think this is far from the expectation of the average engineer. You can find many random companies with very menial and low stake work. However if you work at certain companies you sign up for this. BTW I don't think this is unreasonable. This is precisely why programmers get paid big bucks, definitely in the US. We have have a set of skills that require a lot of talent and effort, and we are rewarded for it. Bottom line this isn't for everyone, so if you feel you are done with it that's fair. Shop around for jobs and be deliberate about where you choose to work, and you will be fine.

bob1029 5y ago
> I am finally leading a system that will support millions of requests per second. This is the difference. Millions of things per second is a super hard problem to get right in any reality. Pulling this off with any technology at all is rewarding. Most distributed systems are not facing this degree of realistic challenge. In most shops, the challenge is synthetic and self-inflicted. For whatever reason, people seem to think saying things like "we do billions of x per month" somehow justifies their perverse architectures.