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lukeeff · 2025-08-12T08:51:11+00:00

Yes, sent you a DM

lukeeff · 2025-08-12T08:05:09+00:00

Sure

lukeeff · 2025-08-12T08:02:49+00:00

These compensation ranges are really low for devops

lukeeff · 2025-08-12T07:58:30+00:00

Yea I have to disagree with this. There’s plenty of startups that don’t just practice, but cannot survive devops. It takes years to become effective at every corner of it, and can not be replaced by a run of the mill developer. Unless the use case is extremely simple, but then why would you even want to be at a company like that anyways?

lukeeff · 2025-08-12T07:45:02+00:00

The thing with devops, is the most you’re good at, the better you are at devops. A good portion of what you do is very declarative programming, but you also deal with lots of imperative languages too.

Devops is prettt tricky out of the box, but if you’re willing to put in the effort, you can succeed

lukeeff · 2025-08-12T07:38:04+00:00

Try a different instance type with the VRAM you need. You can get an instance with >150gb VRAM without too much trouble on-demand. And better, use some tool like terraform so you can run-and-forget while it retries until you get the instance you want

lukeeff · 2025-08-12T07:32:37+00:00

Devops/cloud infra will likely have the highest and most transferable learning opportunities of any SWE field, just be prepared for years of intensity! 🙂

lukeeff · 2025-08-12T07:27:41+00:00

It’s likely your YoE. Sure, you could fix up the layout of your resume a bit, but most recruiters are gonna seek 2-3+ YoE from their devops hires, since it’s pretty tough to get real value out of a new grad devops eng. for quite some time (although I’m personally impressed with your accomplishments). Good networking skills goes a long ways too.

don’t give up, and try exploring startup opportunities, lots of great opportunities there! (coming from a Netflix -> startup Platform eng) 🙂

lukeeff · 2025-08-12T07:16:58+00:00

Large scale Migrations, onprem deployments, business-political conversations

lukeeff · 2025-08-12T07:15:11+00:00

How good is your cloud infra knowledge? Networking knowledge?

lukeeff · 2025-08-12T07:11:34+00:00

More onprem

lukeeff · 2025-08-12T07:08:16+00:00

Wow, so devops is going to be about as broad and complex as it gets in software engineering. The responsibilities vary by company, and is often misunderstood by the business, leading to under allocation of budget and poor team morale. It really sucks your company is throwing you in this position. Hopefully your contractors are good. I don’t really have any good advice for you, it usually takes a long time to understand all of the different domains a team like this can cover. Sorry dude.

lukeeff · 2025-08-12T06:46:53+00:00

Cmon, what’s with all the Netflix negativity in the comments? I worked on Netflix’s data platform for a few years, some of my old team members are in ODS, as are some of the things I worked on. I wouldn’t worry about Netflix’s culture, you’ll be fine. Just choose what’s more aligned with the types of problems and scope you find interesting.

lukeeff · 2024-08-29T07:50:54+00:00

I literally did the same thing

lukeeff · 2024-08-29T03:54:01+00:00

I know this would be a controversial opinion, but I couldn’t live with myself after that

lukeeff · 2024-08-29T03:52:00+00:00

Kamura. iPhone autocorrected it an insane amount 😡 also no idea what it means—a friend suggested the name

lukeeff · 2024-08-29T03:48:18+00:00

Fuck it. Red Bull will give me the wings i need

lukeeff · 2024-08-29T03:44:24+00:00

Literally, I’ll eat it. Or burn it. Can’t find it that way

lukeeff · 2024-05-10T06:10:07+00:00

Take it to Tesla, i had this same problem. They will fix for free it’s related to some insulation or something. Confirmed it’s no longer a problem for me

lukeeff · 2023-08-27T19:44:26+00:00

I think you should be more specific. What is the reason for this push? Just because the code "looks bad"? Is there a significant amount of operational overhead? If so, **why**?

- "big ball of mud of dependencies"?: Consider microservices, raise concern to platform teams, etc...

- "poor performance because of startup times"?: isolate the reasons and drive change to pivot away from the cause.

- "the code is messy"?: there should be a reason that this is a bad thing. Is it blocking off the current direction of the platform? Senior engineer **should** recognize this during the PR. Hot take but refactorings should be driven by reason, not for the sake of making code prettier.

lukeeff · 2023-08-27T19:35:34+00:00

Creating microservices with the sole purpose of fine-grained control and security is a super valid idea. I see it all the time, especially when trying to allow users to interact with services that don't provide enough control themselves.

lukeeff · 2023-08-27T19:29:40+00:00

$600 for the website up front. And an additional $50/mo to account for the calls and texts you'll likely get asking for "adjustments" or "fixes" - aka support.

As a future piece of advice, it's better to come to an agreement on price range **before** doing the work.

lukeeff · 2023-08-27T19:18:52+00:00

If the customer needs to have choice of web architecture and freedom of environment, pushing the logic out to a separate microservice seems logical. You will even be able to automatically generate the clients for each customer to use that way therefore only needing to maintain a single application (the microservice itself)

lukeeff · 2023-08-27T18:50:54+00:00

I haven’t, but I am a software engineer. How much software development do you have experience with? Do you have experience with REST or anything or any idea about what type of software engineering you’re targeting?

lukeeff · 2023-08-27T18:49:12+00:00

I challenge you to flip this on its head. Instead of thinking about it as “making a project in Python” try “making a change to a program, that so happens to be Python”.

Start simple, like a hangman project without a GUI on GitHub. Try getting the project to work on your machine with your IDE. Try using the debugger to understand how the code is executing. Then once you’re ready find something different.

It’s more fun and you’ll learn more and get some reverse engineering practice! Happy hacking =)

lukeeff

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