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by exikyut 2852 days ago
"Ah, so that's what Kops, cloudformation, aurora, packer, UAT, ELK, Jaeger, service meshes, istio and calico are."

"Yeah, no. I have no plans to try and actually make anything with that tangle. Hah."

"Although... I do know what nginx, java, containers, k8s, VPCs, ansible, jenkins, and CI are... so... maybe it's really all the same at the end of the day, I'll see everything in this list similarly 5 years from now, and I should see if I can tolerate it?"

"Hm. There is the small fact that I don't really know what k8s, VPCs, ansible and jenkins actually do, let alone the entire first list, and of all of these I've probably only really used Java, and that only a few times. I think I've had a few minutes' look at GitLab's Grafana dashboard once or twice?"

"I'll bet installing all of these, including all dependencies, would take probably multiple tens of gigabytes of diskspace, and probably consume more RAM that I have installed." (I'm running short on both, I have a few hundred MB of diskspace free right now, and never any free RAM :D)

"I wonder how effectively I can learn these on the job?"

"...I wonder if there are any jobs that don't require $tool_existence+1 years of experience with any of these before they even consider candidates ._."

Goes back to writing PHP script in text editor