Ask HN: 11 Year (7 in FAANG) laid off dev needing career advice
If you have the patience you can try setting up your own CI&#x2F;CD pipelines.<p>IMO API dev isn&#x27;t THAT different from what you already do, just a different mindset. Take this with a grain of salt from me though because I only dabble in API dev.<p>There&#x27;s an O&#x27;Reilly book &quot;Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes&quot; that have me a solid grasp on Kubernetes but the biggest lesson from that section was &quot;don&#x27;t manage k8s yourself&quot; and that was the BEST advice about K8s I&#x27;ve ever seen. Create a free account with the cloud service providers and play around with k8s (ideally after you&#x27;ve run through some guides on CI&#x2F;CD). This is 100% your &quot;real world experience&quot;.<p>If you&#x27;re looking to try a new career field I think you&#x27;d likely excel in infosec with your background. Take a look at application security and see if that interests you.<p>I know your pain as I&#x27;m on the tail end of what you&#x27;re going through, but as an outsider looking in it seems you&#x27;re in a much stronger spot than I am! They&#x27;re is light at the end of the tunnel!<p>EDIT: IT needs specialists AND generalists. From one generalist to another, don&#x27;t be too upset about not being an expert in your domain. I&#x27;m a CISSP that struggles with security analysis but can do security management, privacy, and GRC off a fresh bong rip and a four loko+rip it cocktail. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH NOT KNOWING EVERYTHING BECAUSE A GOOD TEAM WILL ALWAYS LOOK OUT FOR EACH OTHER