“There was a team managing a series of small-ish but incredibly important databases. They had these thing running on Microsoft sql server and were doing a beaut

“There was a team managing a series of small-ish but incredibly important databases. They had these thing running on Microsoft sql server and were doing a beautiful job. There was exactly zero reason to migrate them to something else. But....when the folks in this department went to apply for other jobs inside the company or out, they were greeted with: "You're not using Snowflake??!!", "you're not doing Cloud?!!", "you don't even have an EMR cluster??!!". Exactly. A lot of people who are doing a great job for years wouldn’t even get hired by their own company. A few years ago I realized this was true for myself. Since then I am making an effort to keep myself hireable even if new tech wouldn’t necessarily make sense for the company. But it makes sense for my own career survival.