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Staff Engineer Promo, Observability, and Cloud Rants
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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!