CodingBlocks

Specialize or Bounce Around?

Mar 1 '21

It’s been a minute since we last gathered around the water cooler, as Allen starts an impression contest, Joe wins said contest, and Michael earned a participation award.

For those following along in their podcast app, this episode’s show notes can be found at https://www.codingblocks.net/episode153.

Survey Says

When you start a new project, in regards to the storage technology, do you ...

Go with what you know. It's not even a debate.
Try something new. Might as well learn something.
Seriously consider the options. Deliberate. Debate. Try not to hate.
Pfft ... storage. You're funny.

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Gather Around the Water Cooler

Go deep on a single language? Or know enough about many of them?
Who is hiring for remote work?
- Remote job resources:
  - Datadog
  - DataStax
  - Microsoft
  - Facebook
  - Amazon
  - Github
  - GitLab
  - Twitter
  - Confluent
  - Elastic
  - MongoDB
  - Netlify
  - Heroku
  - remotegamejobs.com
  - Hand-picked remote jobs from Hacker News – Who is hiring (RemoteLeaf.com)
  - remoteok.io
  - Stack Overflow
- What companies are in your top 3?
Know your storage technology. What it excels at and what it doesn’t.

Resources We Like

DB-Engines Ranking (db-engines.com)
Search Driven Apps (episode 83)
Amazon CloudSearch FAQs (aws.amazon.com)
Kubernetes Failure Stores (k8s.af)
The Uber Engineering blow (eng.uber.com)
Datadog and the Container Report, with Michael Gerstenhaber (Kubernetes Podcast from Google, episode 137)

Tip of the Week

Automated Google Cloud Platform Authentication with minikube.
- Be careful about how you use ARG in your Docker images. (docs.docker.com)
Calvin and Hobbes the Search Engine (MichaelYingling.com)
11 Facts About Real-World Container Use (Datadog)
Tips & Tricks for running Strimzi with kubectl (Strimzi)