- All work is meaningless, so I started seeking the ones that pay the most (banks, hedges, FAANGs).
- By making a lot of money early, I plan to soft retire in five years (with 35) - I will take a loooong vacation, then work as a freelancer / consultant as I please.
- Without the fear of starving or being old without cash, I will pursue stuff I like.
PM me in five years and I will tell you whether I succeeded.
In my first job as a sysadmin I tried my best to support business and two things happened:
1 - My paycheck did not increase when business was successful.
2 - When something broke as a result of assuming risks to deliver stuff, I was blamed, not business.
So I realized the most rational thing I could do was to become a bureaucrat and ended up leaving.
Now I work in a place where business and IT are in the same team and have the same financial incentives. I tend to make reasonable consesions and business people actually care about security and keeping tech debt sane. Pretty cool.
My company's internal apps use a mix of VPNs and IP fenced load balancers. We are migrating to app proxy.
No inbound connections + access based on Azure AD identity with conditional access (restrict apps to Intune enabled corporate devices) and MFA is an absolute killer.
My only complain is that connectors are not very DevOps friendly. Cloudflare Tunnel is much better in this area.
Most of the stuff my company is running is made up of data pipelines and machine learning pipelines. So we have a lot of infrequent jobs that don't really care about latency.
From the architecture, it's not really clear to me why Lambdas have the 15 min limitation. It seems to me AWS could use the same infrastructure to make a product that competes with Google Cloud Run. Maybe it's a businesses thing?
Not sure if that's the case with others, but I have a really hard time connecting CT with actual applications. My classes were full of complex maths and toy examples, but very weak in actual engineering and heuristics.
Yeah models assume future data can be predicted with past data, which of course is not always true in real life due fundamental limitations of statistics, such as very fat tailed distributions in stock markets.
Competent data scientists must be able to spot those cases quickly.
I generally don't care about certifications, but was convinced to try the AWS Solutions Architect path.
While I'm still studying, I've found many knowledge gaps due learning things through experience. I guess studying something in a structured way definitely has value.
"The tendency to spend
valuable hours practicing perfectionism resulted in weeks
of timeline delays and loss of design integration and
verification time."
- All work is meaningless, so I started seeking the ones that pay the most (banks, hedges, FAANGs).
- By making a lot of money early, I plan to soft retire in five years (with 35) - I will take a loooong vacation, then work as a freelancer / consultant as I please.
- Without the fear of starving or being old without cash, I will pursue stuff I like.
PM me in five years and I will tell you whether I succeeded.