It isn't easy, although paradoxically I prefer the 9-5 to be interesting work in its own right. It is surprising how many ideas can flow from your day job into your own projects.
It is surprising how many ideas can flow from your day job into your own projects.
I've definitely noticed that. At work, we have a few hundred EC2 instances running at any given time, so we've had to deal with monitoring and scalability issues. Now that I'm working nights and weekends on my own project, I apply a lot of that expertise to a much smaller setup (5 instances in my case). When I get to the point where I need to scale up to hundreds of instances, it won't be foreign to me.
I've definitely noticed that. At work, we have a few hundred EC2 instances running at any given time, so we've had to deal with monitoring and scalability issues. Now that I'm working nights and weekends on my own project, I apply a lot of that expertise to a much smaller setup (5 instances in my case). When I get to the point where I need to scale up to hundreds of instances, it won't be foreign to me.