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.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.My most recent full time employment a year ago was at a great company.  Healthy culture, some of the most talented coworkers I've ever had the pleasure to work along side.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 anything done.  At least, it always felt that way.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 build things for people, be compensated well for it, and get satisfaction from a customer liking what I've built.  It was simple.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 primitives 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?I don't know what the future looks like, but the present strikes me as unsustainable in the long run.(edit: Wow!  I expected this to be downvoted to oblivion, not my highest rated comment on the site...)(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!)