[pipeline_peak]

Nothing of that user share is just a simple web app.

Lots of moving parts to make that work. And it often takes a special person who’s been there long enough to know a peculiar infrastructure needed in part to make that happen.

You always hear about how these jobs pay a lot, well it’s not always the kinda sexy academic stuff you hear about on HN… A lot of spinning up and deploying services.

[jmoak3]

Exactly. At a different tech company, I was shocked how much of my team's effort went into configuring specific instances of cassandra and kafka clusters.

There are simple webapps, but as you scale up it completely changes.

Scale is not simple.