Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public
And now, in 2021, Google has inflicted their "clarity" on the rest of the world.  I miss jobs from the 2000s, the jobs where you were paid to write software for a living.<p>You know, engineering!  Given a task, or set of requirements, develop software on your computer, software which eventually runs on the customer's computer, where it's used to solve the customer's problem.<p>My most recent full time employment a year ago was at a <i>great</i> company.  Healthy culture, some of the most talented coworkers I've ever had the pleasure to work along side.<p>Over the year I lasted there, I used for the first time: Docker, Golang, Kubernetes, Terraform, Gitlab, Saltstack, Prometheus, (and probably other middleware that my brain has GCd to free space).  I was barely able to get <i>anything</i> done.  At least, it always felt that way.<p>Maybe I'm just an idiot, I don't know.  I'd accept it if true!  What I do know is that I used to be able to <i>build</i> things for people, be compensated well for it, and get <i>satisfaction</i> from a customer liking what I've built.  It was simple.<p>In this brave new world, with containers, pods and this and that and the other thing, where it can take months before one even understands enough <i>primitives</i> to do a "hello world".... how can anything ever get done??  How can anything inventive, creative, or experimental emerge from our industry when the develop/test/improve cycle has gone from minutes to weeks or months?<p>I don't know what the future looks like, but the present strikes me as unsustainable in the long run.<p>(edit: Wow!  I expected this to be downvoted to oblivion, not my highest rated comment on the site...)<p><tiny>(Forgive this shameless self promotion: if, dear reader-who-is-a-hiring-manager, you have a paid role for a lowly but experienced systems engineer who doesn't know anything about "web" or "apps" or "social" but is quite adroit with C/C++ (and a few others), most "sciencey/mathy" type problems, signal processing, firmware, network protocols, automation/scripting, and more, ... email is welcome!)</>