As a regular old “platform engineer” I fight to ignore “data platform” tasks. There’s no target to hit, it’s just moving sand around a sand box. If you want an

As a regular old “platform engineer” I fight to ignore “data platform” tasks. There’s no target to hit, it’s just moving sand around a sand box. If you want an answer to a specific question, we can spin up a read replica and a Metabase and write a query in an afternoon, cool. I’ll get you a chart, we’ll move on. If you want “a data analytics platform to enable blah blah blah” I’m out, I can’t do it. My eyes won’t focus, my hands stop moving. Developers sometimes tell me stuff like “Kubernetes is too complex”, “jeez React is a pain”. I send those quotes to my friends stuck writing 195 step DAGs to transform log files from s3 into s3 so they can eventually land in s3 - ah yes but they’re parquet somewhere in between, and that matters for some reason. We laugh together, but I can see it hurts them more than I intended. Life is too short to faff about doing nothing. Go join a company with less than 100 engineers and learn to be happy again. Let the enterprises burn, we’ll all be better for it. Anyways this was a fantastic piece, I hope this person writes their book after all.