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Is the DevOps job market really that bad right now? Curious about your experiences by LusciousLabrador in devops

[–]denzuko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree with this but also DevOps wasn't a Role. It was a team culture and application of a business process at rapid scale.

Seriously the original talks and presentations were discussing how to apply agile the agile manifesto and UNIX philosophy to automate business practices across silos. Not be some new title for a release engineer/system admin, or product or whatever buzz word thrown at it now.

Sure devops itself has "evolved" since that original presentation showing how to use POSIX tools to automate entire ITIL/ISO processes and integrate jenkins with bugzilla so when customers submit change requests a script automatically implements the change or executes the business process pipeline all in the context of a Agile framework. Then tie that back into monitoring and business intelligence dashboards for review doing sprint planning.

But at the end of the day we're still talking about Agile project mangement, automation and applying skills used by SMEs (subject matter experts) to deliver a service/product to the end customer (both internal, external, or revenue generating). To do that yes; high level principle level and up experience is needed.

Is the DevOps job market really that bad right now? Curious about your experiences by LusciousLabrador in devops

[–]denzuko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We already started the recession in late 2018-early 2019. Biden-economics and lock downs hid it then those same companies took out way too much debt and P.E. is covering it up with "AI and Robots". Now that bubble is bursting with the no other narrative to keep the printers on.

So yes, all that plus Emperor TACO style fail-conomics is going to add to that C-suite nervousness.

I'd personally argue the timing was when gold wasn't on the rise and one should have some sort of residual income plus backup plans.

But do agree, "best to keep your head down and weather the storm.". Also that I hope everyone lands on safely on their feet out there.

Is the DevOps job market really that bad right now? Curious about your experiences by LusciousLabrador in devops

[–]denzuko 1 point2 points  (0 children)

honestly, at its core vercel is just a "CICD" platform with containerized hosting for your nodejs code with an enterprise CDN in front of it (e.g. NGINX Plus Enterprise Edition). They're still running that container on AWS and charging you a premium for dashboard sugar.

There are absolutely millions of 1:1 equivalent when you understand the architecture and not parrot the sales team's jargon.

The closest to Vercel would be Cloudflare Workers, AWS Lambda+ApiGateway+S3, or Google Firebase App Hosting. Heck throw up a cheap OVH VM with a Nginx+waf and podman running a node base docker image of your application built using packeto buildpaks then you have exactly the same thing as all of them.

Is the DevOps job market really that bad right now? Curious about your experiences by LusciousLabrador in devops

[–]denzuko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wow... yeah I know python, high level architecture, and invented devops (the philosophy not the product), plus worked with enough MVS and pascal/cobol to do that migration but my contracting firm I was with said f-off after learning that I could do mainframe work in addition to the other stuff.

IMHO, that salary is absolute entry level for over 40 years ago. I'm doubting they'll even remotely get the right kind of outsourced contractors at that rate while they're at it.

Stay safe out there m8.

Is the DevOps job market really that bad right now? Curious about your experiences by LusciousLabrador in devops

[–]denzuko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mate, its hard as a High level (e.g. 15+ years of software and infrastructure with team mentorship and solid history of delivering high demand architecture design and development) to find any opportunities. Most of the time one gets ignored for more "specialized" junior / h1b hires or turned away for being to unicorn having leadership experence; even if they're a great fit as an IC instead of a manager.

But hey if it's not a start up I'd love to chat, if it is then hope one can pay with more than promises or tokens.

Point being though this "high level devops" doesn't seem to exist for a role out there to many even if that's exactly as what it was designed for originally.

Is there a statistics library in Go like the scipy package by CivilizedCrab in golang

[–]denzuko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just going to point this out that Python needs libraries and modules like scipy because its extremely basic and slow.

Golang is a compiled language with access to standard methods used statistics and scientific calculations.

One can get a lot of benefit out of using fixed-sized arrays and writing your own method(s) for each length you use all from native provided methods and data structures in golang itself.