[the_gipsy]

The downside of DevOps is that you now have to spend time on something that's not writing code. The upside is that you suddenly have a lot more power. You can add and remove pieces of infrastructure without having to get approval and waiting for some other "sys admin" team.

Cloud providers are very proprietary and specific in nature, which is very off-putting to me personally. Putting some abstraction over it, like terraform, makes it much less specific. It seems less like "wasted niche knowledge".

I have never used MongoDB, just watched it fail spectactularly in other teams. I don't get it. If I know my data structures, relational is obviously the right choice. If not, I won't expect any meaningful document queries either. A simple key/value store should be good, whether that's in my RDMS or something like Redis.

Go is just a fresh Java, without all the cruft. Also dumbed down, which is a bit sad, but on the other hand very quick to move around in. I don't get how anybody can stand all the crazy tooling and configuration and setup around Java, Spring, etc.

[soco]

You definitely have more power, you're right. With great power comes also great responsibility, which wasn't there before. Example: instead of the experienced DB guy who was checking the logs to tell you exactly which query goes too slow and what you could do on your side to improve it (and do things on his side to scale the DB better), now you must build the knowledge to do all this properly by yourself.