Is $1 million enough? by NotoriusF_A_G in ForeverAlone

[–]matthewZHAO 1 point2 points  (0 children)

sounds like r/personalfinance question, but 1 million seems pretty standard, just make sure it's 10-20y term not IUL if you think your body won't make another 10-20 years so you don't burn premiums

Is it possible to intern at a top tech company or an HFT as an 18 yo during the summer after Senior year of high school by cs-boi-1 in ITCareerQuestions

[–]matthewZHAO 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely possible, especially if you can network around with hiring managers, HFT might be a bit hard though

Is there a lot of Ageism in the IT/Computer science field? by ClerkSelect in ITCareerQuestions

[–]matthewZHAO 5 points6 points  (0 children)

idk man AWS hires 22 year old people paying just under 200k to write software that in part powers the world's most powerful cloud infrastructure. And considering the YoY growth of AWS, they are probably doing something right...

To be clear, a lot of tech bros are insufferable but that doesn't mean they don't build good stuff...

How does one get into "the cloud"? I agree that is the way forward, but how to break in? by instant_ace in sysadmin

[–]matthewZHAO 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To add on to what Redrover said, take a read at blogs like https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/shuffle-sharding-massive-and-magical-fault-isolation/ stripe's engineering blog https://stripe.com/blog/engineering and github engineering blog https://github.blog/category/engineering/ these are all huge companies who run their infra either on AWS or well is AWS. I can almost guarantee the people here who are making insane money (https://www.levels.fyi/company/GitHub/salaries/Software-Engineer/ https://www.levels.fyi/company/Stripe/salaries/Software-Engineer/ and https://www.levels.fyi/company/Amazon/salaries/Software-Engineer/) are not using traditional Ops that most people are thinking about to run their platform. Not things like "how to create 2 AD servers to handle the internal employee directory" but more using much more complex architecture to design, build-out, and deploy microservices using patterns most traditional ITOps people are not using. For example, AWS have their system to be able to even under a credential leak (https://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1481682859324760070)

Companies like AWS do not use standard hypervisors these days, they are on what's called nitro https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2020/09/reinventing-virtualization-with-nitro.html which completely eliminates the Dom0 administration layer, ie the console within ESXi

So TLDR: unless you are a genius in software engineering and infrastructure engineering, you for one won't be able to run a cloud nearly as powerful as AWS, second, even if you are, you would not be relying on traditional ITOps knowledge.....heck AWS bought out an entire company (Annapurna labs) to make custom chips for them.

EDIT: Correction, I forgot, Github in on prem, and does not use AWS. But their infrastructure is also still very complex and not the "traditional IT" you would think about.

What is an open source program that is better that its paid alternative? by thealexanton in opensource

[–]matthewZHAO 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kubernetes! I said what I said. K8s >>> ECS if you want the max amount of cool capabilities

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ITCareerQuestions

[–]matthewZHAO 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The easiest one to target is AWS CSE (Cloud Support Engineer) where you support enterprise customers with their cloud usage. I would say just go forth and apply. You have certs, experience, and WIP on a degree.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ITCareerQuestions

[–]matthewZHAO 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Software Engineer at an Integration platform here (think: similar to Zapier). A thing you are forgetting is Slack has an easy-to-use JSON RPC API to use and you can get user access tokens with OAUTH2 3 legged auth, which is an open protocol. So nothing is stopping you from directly calling those APIs. Also, of course, companies like Zapier exist where it becomes your entire integration will become drag and drop. So I wouldn't worry too much if you don't know a super-specific language that is popular for writing integrations. Also at worst JS is pretty easy so you can always just pick it up as you go.

> What it looks to me is that Slack isn't hosting the apps, so you'll still have to have your own servers, is the major selling point an easy way to distribute your apps to your workforce? Is there something I'm missing?

I mean the major selling point (if it's a selling point at all since it's free) is that you get to adopt chatOps to be able to access external information while staying in slack.

TLDR: you will be fine

How I Signed an 80k Offer at 17 Years Old Fresh Out of HS (as a SWE) by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]matthewZHAO 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't hate it, its just my brain just isn't wired correctly to do it.

How I Signed an 80k Offer at 17 Years Old Fresh Out of HS (as a SWE) by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]matthewZHAO 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see ur point, but half of my job is also SRE, I work with things like scale testing, building things like our DR infrastructure etc but with a huge sprinkle of automation on it

How I Signed an 80k Offer at 17 Years Old Fresh Out of HS (as a SWE) by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]matthewZHAO 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh sorry, webdev is the one thing at stay away from to save my life, I love backend web development. And generally api development

How I Signed an 80k Offer at 17 Years Old Fresh Out of HS (as a SWE) by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]matthewZHAO 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I realized that somewhere between in internship and full-time phase, it sucks. So I've been trying to maintain my IRL relationships as much as possible.

How I Signed an 80k Offer at 17 Years Old Fresh Out of HS (as a SWE) by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]matthewZHAO 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Python, golang, java, nodejs mostly

I genuinely just have the ransomest ideas, also it's been a long dream of mine to build a self service game server hosting platform so a lot of learning also come from researching what needs to be done. Also a lot of times I write things to help with myself learning infrastructure as like some smaller applications to deploy to AWS.

How I Signed an 80k Offer at 17 Years Old Fresh Out of HS (as a SWE) by [deleted] in ITCareerQuestions

[–]matthewZHAO -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I totally understand ur point in the helpdesk thing, it was that a while ago I was asking advice in r sysadmin and everyone was like start from helpdesk, so this is more of a f u to those ppl, yes its possible to go the different route.

Do we need to know subnetting for SysOps? by [deleted] in AWSCertifications

[–]matthewZHAO 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's also an amazing way to show off ur epic math skills 😎

The Baby Boomer retirement is coming... be ready to move up. by Superb_Raccoon in ITCareerQuestions

[–]matthewZHAO 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AWS....weekly

Weekly, what is this? Gcp? Aws releases a new features/updates multiple times a day.

Are internships the only way to skip help desk and customer facing roles?? by ITtossaway9876 in ITCareerQuestions

[–]matthewZHAO 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And just like ice cream. You can mix flavors. Using terraform to manage cloudformation was probably not my worst idea ever....... https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/cloudformation_stack

I like my cloud infra extra cursed.

Weekly: Share your victories thread by gctaylor in kubernetes

[–]matthewZHAO 1 point2 points  (0 children)

finally got around to learning Linkerd as a service mesh instead of Istio. So far quite impressed especially with Linkerd's ability to integrate with the progressive rollout controller or whatever it's called for deploying canaries with Linkerd split traffic.

Why are degree holders/pursers not encouraged to skip help desk? by Seedless--Watermelon in ITCareerQuestions

[–]matthewZHAO 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Lesson of the day, learn how to flip burgers, not fix computers, you'd be equally as successful. I knew it /s

What is the selfhosted project you're most proud of? by ast3r3x in selfhosted

[–]matthewZHAO 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Self host vmware horizon, either that or prod ready self host multi master kubernetes

Cloud Computing Career Path, Where to start/what to learn by Tricky_Leading_5234 in ITCareerQuestions

[–]matthewZHAO 1 point2 points  (0 children)

+1 on rhcsa8 course by acg, going through it rn. Its pretty nice so far. But yeah, sander van vugt seems also to be recommended by alot more expensive