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by arinlen 1398 days ago
> explain how Big Tech has even bigger problems, before explainig how you can fix Big Tech problems with Big Tech budgets and headcound (...)

What do you have to say about the fact that the career goals of those interested in this sort of topic is... Be counted as part of the headcount of these Big Tech companies while getting paid Big Tech budget salaries?

Because if you count yourself among those interested in the topic, that's precisely the type of stuff you're eager to learn so that you're in a better position to address those problems.

What's your answer to that? Continue writing "hello world" services with Spring Initializr because that's all you need?

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> Because if you count yourself among those interested in the topic, that's precisely the type of stuff you're eager to learn so that you're in a better position to address those problems.

People will work on problems of different scales in a career ; will you agree that different scales of problems call for different techniques ?

I have no problem with FANGs documenting how to fix FANGs issues !

I'm a little bit concerned about FANGs-devs-wanabee applying the same techniques to non-FANGs issues, though, for lack of training resources about the "not trivial but a bit boring" techniques.

Your insight about the budget / salaries makes sense, though : a book about "building your first boring IT project right" is definitely not going to be a best seller anytime soon :D !

Nothing wrong with having those aspirations, but sounds like the parent commenter has non-Big-Tech-sized problems he needs to solve now.