| The biggest gains I'd recommend for just about everybody in a tech field: 1) Continuing to stoke the flames of curiosity and discipline within yourself so that you genuinely love to learn and get slightly better every day without fear of perpetual burnout. 2) Confidence to ask questions in group settings so that you can quickly get to a collective understanding of the problem space and challenges at play. 3) Communication. Litmus test is being able to present what you're doing in an understandable and approachable manner that can get the right people engaged. And to answer the spirit of your question more directly, some technologies that my team have found to be super valuable: A) Hasura (GraphQL/ORM layer to interface with Postgres) B) Pulumi (TypeScript IaaC) C) React (nothing super new here, it just continues to be incredibly valuable to us) D) NestJS (TypeScript-friendly framework that is like Angular for the backend) |
Also, Pulumi feels like a distant second to Terraform.
Also-also, writing Terraform code for SRE/infrastructure tasks mostly feels like unrewarding grunt work.