[clouded]

That sounds good, though. Do companies exist that will actually let me master my craft in exchange for maintaining their old code bases and not pull the rug out from under me every few years? Those are the companies I thought I worked at, but even they are susceptible to the trends. Or maybe AWS really is proof that god exists and his name is Jeff Bezos, and literally every application written now needs to be in "The Cloud". It's like one day they just say "Hmm, we have this 20 year old code base. Boring, predictable. Makes us the money. I know what's missing. Some cloud. Hey Java guy, you're a cloud developer now, you already know what that is, right? That's what you do now." Then before I finish thinking that maybe our SQL Server or Postgres in AWS is no big deal, they interrupt "No. MongoDB now. For reasons. It's just better, okay?". "Well, I need to figure out how to get Java to work in Lambda and how Spring Boot fits into the pict..." "No. Typescript, it just makes sense and it's easy, you can pick it up in about an hour." "Wait, what is happening."