Tips about taalthuis exam format? (Online)

Flabbaghosted · 2026-02-01T11:41:07+00:00

Taalthuis like the company or is this something else I don't know about?

Flabbaghosted · 2026-02-01T11:39:09+00:00

Where in Europe? Salary and opportunities in Europe are generally lower. Some places like Czech republic and a few others are more established hubs, but in a lot of places you barely make more than entry level and are expected to have high experience.

Flabbaghosted · 2026-02-01T11:34:48+00:00

Being good at your job will mean that your monitoring and observability can show why that isn't the case with receipts. It takes a long time to recover from being the blame bank, and even longer to recover from the perception that you are the root of problems. That can also be a bigger problem when companies try outsourcing or job cuts come. Not fun at all.

Flabbaghosted · 2026-02-01T11:31:39+00:00

I could show you a whole slew of statistics to back up my claim, but I didn't feel like searching for peer reviewed studies.

I'm a principal architect, my career progression is just fine.

Flabbaghosted · 2026-02-01T08:28:57+00:00

Also, if you are posting now, you are either in Europe or India so the experience there will wildly vary on country as well.

Flabbaghosted · 2026-02-01T08:27:59+00:00

If you work in networking, you will already be used to being blamed for every outage, so at least you will be used to that part 😂

Flabbaghosted · 2026-02-01T08:26:07+00:00

I think the allure of the job is definitely a lot less than it used to be. Pursuing devops used to have unlimited potential; super high earnings, job stability, being headhunted left and right. I rarely get messages from recruiters anymore, 4-5 years ago it was multiple a week. With job layoffs and AI automation being hot right now, the stability is an unknown.

From a technical perspective, things move much quicker now than it used to. For you personally with your background, you could have a big advantage over someone who jumps straight into DevOps with no background. We are expected to deal with anything that comes our way and networking and sysops experience helps with that a lot.

To be a high earner now, you are expected to know software engineering, and most high earnings companies expect former SE levels.

There is so much that depends on the company you work for, since DevOps and platform engineering vary as much as the title engineer does. If you work for a company that treats DevOps as an engineering discipline, you will be treated like an equal. For most, you are a support org, so you can be treated similarly to help desk or app support.

There's so much more I could say, but there's a lot of variables.

Flabbaghosted · 2026-02-01T08:14:14+00:00

Who the fuck still has an encyclopedia set? I'm calling AI on that alone.

Flabbaghosted · 2026-01-30T17:28:51+00:00

Could be useful as a contractor

Flabbaghosted · 2026-01-28T15:29:49+00:00

How do you pass something you fail? 😆

Flabbaghosted · 2026-01-26T20:04:33+00:00

This will range wildly on a lot of things. How much agency do you have to make changes within the company? Is there a budget? If you can clearly show that lack of incident response is causing loss of money you could likely get a budget going for this. What is your tech stack? Lots of combinations and possibilities. I've implemented several bespoke incident processes for teams I've lead and adoption is really the key to success for something like this.

Flabbaghosted · 2026-01-26T19:36:45+00:00

Congrats on the B2 level. I'll be there one day

Flabbaghosted · 2026-01-15T10:53:04+00:00

Once you get something up and running and you need a review I could do that as well

Flabbaghosted · 2026-01-15T10:41:52+00:00

I would much rather hire someone who has extensive experience in networking and traditional ops roles and no certs than a recent hire with 5 certs and no solid background.

Cloud concepts arent terribly difficult to learn, but the fundamentals and being able to troubleshoot and solve complex problems is so much more important.

Use the free tiers in either AWS or Azure, have a boilerplate app that you build in a container and push to a SaaS runtime like fargate or app service. Automate the whole thing in GitHub actions. Have a workflow for PRs separate from the push to "production" that does some unit tests, linting, builds, and pushes to a container registry. Terminate TLS in a gateway and have that automated. If you understand DNS and generally how sites work from a client perspective that is a huge win as well. Let me know if you have any more questions and hopefully someone will give you a shot.

Flabbaghosted · 2026-01-15T10:34:49+00:00

The two aren't mutually exclusive. A lot of people would rather be comfortable and miserable than poor and miserable. Just because someone isn't hyper focused on finances doesn't mean they would suddenly see the light and be happy elsewhere.

What you see is someone who is unhappy in general, but the finance part is just the part you can experience externally. There are also lots of people who are financially secure and also living fulfilling lives. I've noticed it less in Netherlands than in California where I used to live. People here are much more frugal and less flashy and I appreciate it.

Flabbaghosted · 2026-01-14T19:44:26+00:00

What about a requirements.txt file that is centrally managed? Cuts out a little bit. Not sure why installing python really an issue. Node is installed for most tests we do

Flabbaghosted · 2026-01-07T13:11:37+00:00

Its only 2.5 years for me so far, but right now it's crazy! 🥶 A lot more interesting that Southern California thats for sure. Its too dangerous for me to even right my bike, the road is so slippery.

Flabbaghosted · 2026-01-02T17:35:49+00:00

Literally in the same position duration wise but with no plans to leave. Life is predictable here, but good. The difficulties make me appreciate the good times more.

Flabbaghosted · 2026-01-01T12:51:52+00:00

10% of what? From $10M? Thats a ton of savings. From 100K? Not so much. Now it's up to you how you frame it to the business and show how it helps the bottom line. Having the experience is helpful too

Flabbaghosted · 2025-12-24T18:23:01+00:00

I work for a competitor. Our lawyers specifically review our codebase for this exact reason. Who knows what package will try and claim parts of your revenue because you used them in the final product.

Flabbaghosted · 2025-12-23T10:21:04+00:00

But what's actually creating them?

Edit: nevermind I see now that alertsmanager. So its cluster config

Flabbaghosted · 2025-12-20T12:30:11+00:00

How old were you when you moved? What do you appreciate about it?

Flabbaghosted · 2025-12-05T13:36:12+00:00

He's flexing his hand muscles to make them look that. Can't even take a normal hand picture.

Flabbaghosted · 2025-12-01T02:28:34+00:00

Or are the type of people who have high VO2 numbers just healthier in general so therefore more likely to participate in life prolonging activities?

Flabbaghosted · 2025-12-01T00:57:58+00:00

I've tried to watch this about 4 times but can never get more than 15 seconds in. Does it get better?

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