rainboOow9

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by rainboOow9 4y ago
It is still ongoing, but the trend is really on managed services. Most shops that are still running hadoop distribution are doing it for legacy reasons (and I used to work in one). I mean, just look at job offers: how many offers do you see
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by rainboOow9 4y ago
I am only speaking for myself here, but I am really feeling the switch from "data engineering" to "data ops", for whatever that means. In short, 5-10 years ago, writing mapreduce / spark jobs (or even debugging &#x2
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by rainboOow9 4y ago
This is spot on, and personally, the main reason why I decided to move to an engineering manager after 10 years as a developer. And even as an engineering manager, I do not feel safe. I think only once you reach director level, you are prot
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by rainboOow9 4y ago
Ironic thing here is that Hadoop is mostly already outdated. Which is btw one of the depressing thing for a lot of data engineers: we used to play with those cool distributed processing frameworks, and now? We are mostly writing some terraf
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by rainboOow9 4y ago
But is the system really responsible for all of this? I mean, if we go back to a more "natural" state, with simpler jobs and with more direct impacts, are we actually happier? Is cutting woods all day long more fulfilling that a t
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by rainboOow9 4y ago
Do we have some tangible numbers on the long term situation of those "quitting tech" people? Like, ok, they open a wind-surfing school, but then what? Does that work, are they more fulfilled and able to work the next 10+ years in
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by rainboOow9 4y ago
Is it though? Seems pretty specific to the tech industry (and some others). Never heard that there were crazy interview rounds for experienced lawyers, marketers, project managers, even other non-tech engineers. After a certain amount of ex
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by rainboOow9 4y ago
What baffles me though is that its not like this crazy interview gauntlet is being maintained purely by HR. Engineers in those big tech companies are very protective towards those processes as well, and loudly protest if one would try to c