Podcast: Staff Engineer Promo, Observability, and Cloud Rants
00:00 Intros
02:45 Dave's book, Linux for Software Engineers
03:00 Why we wrote the book
06:10 Office Space Movie
09:00 Apple and the AI movement
12:00 How Companies change
14:14 Slow down to speed up
16:00 Slowing down - testing a hobby project
18:20 Promo from Staff Engineer to Staff Engineer
21:05 Day to day as a staff engineer
22:30 Resources for learning to be a staff engineer
23:50 Jr vs Sr Engineer Troubleshooting techniques
33:45 Observability Engineering (book)
39:57 Designing Data-Intensive Applications (book)
48:00 Cloud vs. on-prem infrastructure
49:25 Cloud vs on-demand metal
55:00 Cloud sizing pain
1:00:00 Engineering large systems
1:06:00 Cloud, web scale, and big data
Matthew Sanabria joins me again to talk about the hobby, industry, and career sides of "tech." I had covid when we filmed this, so I look and sound awful. Hope you enjoy!
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