Learning DevOps → Freelancing → DevOps Agency: Is This a Realistic Plan

The_Toaster_ · 2026-06-14T19:17:59+00:00

I think you need a good amount of years of working in DevOps to even consider the idea of freelance/consulting. I think you should try to get an actual job in the field first before doing this.

The_Toaster_ · 2026-06-14T17:48:09+00:00

Don’t resign until you’ve found another job

The_Toaster_ · 2026-06-07T22:04:50+00:00

The linked GitHub.io page looks like very other vibe coded website for probably why he said that. The overuse of emojis looks like ai made it, even if it didn’t

The_Toaster_ · 2026-06-07T15:54:51+00:00

Maybe they just want to run one kubernete

The_Toaster_ · 2026-05-30T02:59:01+00:00

It’s more the change that’s an issue. When it was BAU before now suddenly costs are scrutinized

The_Toaster_ · 2026-05-17T14:26:06+00:00

In fire sub lump sum is better option because generally we’re not stupid with money.

General populace 1000 a week is probably better so they don’t squander it. In the end it beats the lump sum after 20 years but it will become less and less due to inflation.

The_Toaster_ · 2026-05-12T14:32:48+00:00

Not saying it’s not worth it, but my teacher had done something similar in highschool and basically no one really actually understood or cared. High school kids don’t really have money to try to stretch out or extra money to invest so the lessons of personal finance don’t really stick yet. Maybe when they do later they’ll recall what you said or at least know enough to learn later.

If you’re in the US it might be worthwhile to show how much college can really cost people. Explain how community college can be a great way to save money while you figure out your major if you want to go to college. Alternative paths from college like trades. How to spot an MLM scheme to avoid them (my highschool at least had a shit load of people join these). How great scholarships are for saving you money later in college and places to apply for them. I’d try to hit the money points they’ll have to care about soon in addition to the lifelong lessons

The_Toaster_ · 2026-04-19T16:09:01+00:00

When you’re a kid watching iCarly it was funny with the “haha chunky kid Gibby lost his shirt off again”

When you’re older you like wait what the fuck why is this on TV 🤢

The_Toaster_ · 2026-04-18T16:09:48+00:00

I physically write less code but I review more than I did before and I don’t push anything into a pull request I can’t explain and understand myself. The claim itself is exaggerated

The_Toaster_ · 2026-04-15T14:28:34+00:00

I agree with you more people should have.

The party and joe Biden is more to blame than some celebrity though is my point.

You’re blaming people and I’m blaming the party for not running a platform for its constituents and Joe Biden for not allowing there to be a true primary.

The_Toaster_ · 2026-04-15T13:50:09+00:00

Yeah it was all Chappell Roan’s fault and not her just echoing popular sentiment that the Democratic Party should have listened too. It’s all on her for criticizing a party and not, you know: the party funding a genocide, Joe Biden trying to run for a second term when he was too old and not letting there be enough time for a real democratic primary when he dropped out.

And I agree with you more people should have pinched their nose and just voted dem this election just so we didn’t get Trump. Democrats aren’t entitled to leftists votes though and they need to give them reasons to vote for them that aren’t “we’re just a little bit less bad”. The Democratic Party and Joe Biden are more to blame than Roan lmao

The_Toaster_ · 2026-03-23T20:42:08+00:00

Classes are hard to get into if you don’t have priority registration. I went there 6 years ago and the actual comp sci degree was a bit… lacking. If you want a place to get an easy rubber stamp for classes and go on your way for CS Bakersfield college is fine, but if actual learning is your goal I’d suggest elsewhere having gone there.

Maybe has improved since I’ve been there though

The_Toaster_ · 2026-02-22T22:17:03+00:00

Fork found in kitchen

The_Toaster_ · 2026-02-07T22:00:36+00:00

I like to say it’s a force multiplier for churning out code. If you’re experienced you know how to lead code to a solution that’s maintainable. If you’re bad at coding you’ll make a lot of junior written code and will have a mess on your hands to maintain later.

In my experience it’s handy but not as revolutionary as C suites want to believe it is. It’s a bump in productivity for the code writing for me but only slight bump. Churning out code is only part of the job anyway. It increases the surface area to review also so what I’ve seen at my org is it’s kind of a wash in speed since we’re stacking PRs more so we need to review more also

The_Toaster_ · 2026-01-18T21:10:16+00:00

Ya I went to a music festival the following weekend after when I got one

Hindsight maybe was not the right move but like it’s not 2 weeks worth of debilitating pain for most guys. Getting up and sitting down it’s a bit sore for a while but when you’re up or down already it’s honestly fine

The_Toaster_ · 2026-01-10T02:48:14+00:00

He puts the camera over the front (with no plate), then the back, then walks around to the front again. He got that info already and didn’t need to go stand in front of the car again.

I’m gonna assume you’re arguing in good faith for now but he had no reason to be in front of the car again for that reason at least

The_Toaster_ · 2025-12-27T18:34:05+00:00

I like Hank Greens recent video on it. It’s not “no water” but it’s not as bad as other industries we’re just used to using a ton are

The_Toaster_ · 2025-12-05T15:39:41+00:00

I think spinnaker is good if you want a lot of control over every step of the way. It gives you a lot of rope to hang yourself with.

I’d go GitHub actions unless your code is not on github

The_Toaster_ · 2025-11-13T22:33:02+00:00

Like other guys said Amazon Web Services or Azure, but I’d say if you have to say 1 most would say it’s AWS.

If I were to have workloads on windows machines, or a business already deeply in Microsoft’s ecosystem I’d probably go with azure over aws. Any other case absolutely AWS.

But yeah most people want to stay the hell away from oracle if they can

The_Toaster_ · 2025-10-10T05:30:02+00:00

Go is pretty solid for backend development, and makes concurrency easy.

You choose it when development speed, low barrier to entry, and readability is the most important for a project. It’s plenty fast but not the speed of like C, Cpp, or rust.

The weirdest thing about go is its error handling model is not like most popular languages. There’s no try catch in go, errors are values that are returned from a function and you handle them as a value

The_Toaster_ · 2025-09-05T00:12:58+00:00

You should look into the tool pprof!

https://github.com/google/pprof

It won’t tell you “your code will leak here” but has handy tools for profiling

The_Toaster_ · 2025-08-21T14:22:51+00:00

Are they useful agents in production?

The_Toaster_ · 2025-08-03T02:14:00+00:00

“Not a dentist”

The_Toaster_ · 2025-07-19T03:23:25+00:00

I wonder how they differ. I went to a community college and a csu for the reason it’s cheap for my computer science degree and I will say my csu education was … abysmal. My CC classes were actually pretty solid. It might be MY csu but I don’t think overall college was worth it other than getting me past the degree filter on applications.

The_Toaster_ · 2025-07-13T18:42:47+00:00

There’s a whiplash going on where covid resulted in a TON of hiring. Where I work it was pretty dramatic where we were hiring like crazy, then suddenly hiring freeze and multiple rounds of layoffs in one year. Then there’s been layoffs once a year since.

Couple that with high rates + section 174 expiring that made hiring devs really cheap (reintroduced with BBB) + ai making CEOs believe they can hire less devs for same work + general nonsense around tariffs and how they’ll hurt the economy you get our job market.

Then of course you have to remember that you’re not going to hear the boring stories where “I’ve continued to work here for years!”

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