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I personally don't like the idea of migrating off Jenkins, we blew our yearly budget testing our build platform in git. But it's all just platformed ci/CD, which is why I'm recommending the other path. Platform teams lost the goal recently.

US Sr SRE (devops) checking in: I would personally recommend the networking path. Caveat: A good engineer will know the background of both (curl, telnet, Iam, security groups, cidrs, domains)

Devops was mostly automating the stuff in between the other teams; and most of that is working out of the box these days. Most repos already have their Jenkins and docker files. How much admin are you expecting on serverless? Most people are pivoting to app support (ticket queues) or supporting managed services (on call).

As far as my day to day:

• Troubleshooting incidents and walk ups
• Answering pages (read restarting things)
• Groovy Jenkins build pipelines
• Cdk applications
• Ruby configuration management
• Parameter/secret management
• Reading error messages for devs
• Yaml/xml linting
• Assisting in load testing
• Changing settings to make the application more stable. Ex: db connections, memory
• Cloud UI/clis

Pros: I do a lot of different things, we get downtime because we need to respond to things immediately, I don't have normal project/sprint planning. I have the keys to the kingdom. Higher pay than most other devs. I hack things together, I don't need to design workflows.

Cons: I am on call, I am the silliest clown (I get hardest problems), I need to understand a lot of moving pieces, sometimes when things break, there is a lot of pressure on you to find something hard. I regular have to Google "bash variable syntax" because I'm coding in 15 languages. Interviewing for jobs is impossible because no 2 positions are the same

There is no live action in Ba Sing Se.

It's was essentially a pick your own adventure with 3 decisions all creating a 1-2min clip. I personally ouldn't recommend it, but they tried something new

Seeker, you learned your people's language and then learned the way of the world.

Disaster al dente off the coast of San Clemente

I set this up for seamless commits:

function gao() {
     git add .
     git commit -a -m "$*"
     git push origin `git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`
 }

Usage: gao fixing a typo

1:32 RC car maybe?

My boss had starlink and we used to joke that it was an elaborate plot to get out of meetings/awkward conversations.

Depends on which social skills. Regardless of the end goal, you need to start with empathy and consider the other persons situation. Importantly, that they might not be looking for new friends. Be ready to face rejection and that's nothing wrong with you.

Your first goal is to Open or start a conversation, and hopefully keep the other person engaged long enough to let the relationship develop and grow. Typically this is as simple as listening, complimenting or "peacocking" or standing out in attempt to attract the same. Speak your mind, you are trying to find your people! If you comment on appearance be polite, indirect, and be sure not to objectify the person not ~"nice ass", aim for "I love your anime shirt!". It's going to take some attempts before it feels more natural. That works out because you need to engage with a lot of people. Note: If you can't find people, you need to start a hobby.

Next goal is to engage the person and act interested, at this stage you should celebrate opening. Few things to try to keep in mind: Eye contact, questions, active listening, repeating to assert understanding, mirroring, match vocal tone/pitch. But most importantly "Yes and". This means, accept their addition and add to it. Shutting stuff down is easy, contributing is hard. You are trying to build.

Lastly close. Did you have fun, did you share energy? Tell them! Validate that feeling and ask for a followup contact information. From here you will need to balance give and take in the relationship and try to make it mutually beneficial.

My favorite openers:

• What are you passionate about today
• When/what really pissed you off recently
• You made me smile, are you looking for new friends
• Relevant comment based on location/accessories
• I'm bored, got any stories

Atm Xbox is my most reliable media player. PlayStation isn't quite there, but would be a nice to have. My parents aren't very tech literate and they use their smart TV/cable box. I have a friend with an older Roku/smart stick that's incompatible. Have they added an app for Apple TV yet?

I need client side apps and easily sharing libraries with remote friends. Both are pretty hard to give up and not quite there yet.