"The problem is that if a company advertises a job that is all about maintaing one or two monolithic applications without K8s, distributed system topics, tracin

"The problem is that if a company advertises a job that is all about maintaing one or two monolithic applications without K8s, distributed system topics, tracing, microservices, AWS/GCP, etc., well, then not many engineers will apply. " Also: if you are an engineer that has managed to run successful systems for years but didn't use microservices, K8s, AWS and all the other stuff you shouldn't even bother to apply for many jobs because you are "not up-to-date". Heck, reading the job ads from my company even they probably wouldn't hire me or a lot of my colleagues if we applied.