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Graduated in 2008 right in the middle of the mortgage crisis. It was really bad, but I was fresh out of college and had no experience. Took me about 10 months to find a job in that…

This was (is) me. Love Rails, but found it very difficult to learn Ruby. It's very hard for me to read, but that may be because I come from a C# background. If you're looking for s…

I would say F# is as popular as it’s ever been. C# is still king, but it’s been getting a few features from F# the past few years.

I thought this too before I bought it, but figured “what the hell” and bought it anyway. I haven’t played the first one, but the second one is excellent and is my favorite game of …

This has been my experience too. It's either what you mentioned or they have very outdated development practices.

In no way was my intention to brag. I'm pretty sure it wasn't the parent commenter's intention either. Just people reflecting and commenting on their experiences on this topic. I'l…

This has been my exact experience too. Wife and I...no trouble conceiving. Friends in late 20's to early 30's have had a lot of trouble conceiving, i.e. they needed to do IVF. Not …

This was exactly me and few months ago and is also how I burned out at my last job. You can add all the front-end stuff to that list too. I think it’s easy to say we as engineers s…

I feel the same way and can understand where the original comment is coming from. To your point, I also think I’ve reached the ceiling too salary wise. Was talking to a recruiter w…

Yup, fully aware. Should’ve said “Heroku-like” instead of “Heroku for AWS”.

Reading this made me sad. I’ve wondered for a long time why no one ever bothered to build a Heroku for AWS. My main complaint as an application developer these last few years is th…

What did you end up moving to and how did you do it? I’ve been noticing what you’ve posted for awhile in regards to interesting opportunities and .NET, or lack there of. Not sure h…

Oh, I agree with you. It absolutely comes down to the organization. And like you said the organizations that pay very well...don't tend to use .NET. Which is what I've been seeing …

I feel seen with this comment and I'm glad I'm not the only one that has been feeling this way. I'm about to start a new position that uses C#/.NET and seems like a technically mat…

As someone who programs with .NET in their day job...no probably, not. Outside of a few areas related to DDD, event sourcing, and some distributed-system frameworks (NServiceBus an…

I think it's the familiarity factor. It's pretty close to the way you'd work with C#/Java. If you were coming from that type of background, it's an easier transition. A plus, and a…

My first two programming jobs out of college back in the early 2010's took the approach in this article. Albeit, with older technology. This is bringing back old (bad) memories of …

Bought your book awhile ago from someone that mentioned it on my Twitter feed. I’m really enjoying it! You did a great job on it. I especially liked the chapter on networking since…

Why do you think that is? In regards to Cloud Foundry being steamrolled by Kubernetes. There's not a day that goes by where I'm using the "current stack", i.e. K8S, Terraform, etc.…

I had to reply to this because I’ve been feeling this very heavily the last few years. Not sure what to do about it either because it feels like it’s everywhere. Specifically “Agil…

I haven’t worked at a FAANG or any other company even close to that level of scale, so you can take me with half a grain of salt too. But what you said is absolutely true. It’s als…

Austin. And this is coming from someone who has lived in Houston for 20 years. Cuisine is often touted as one of the best things about Houston, and it is good, no doubt. We have qu…

Not a super big impact professionally. Creating and maintaining distributed systems is hard. And even harder when business requirements, stakeholders, etc. get involved. One major …

Thanks! I've been reading/lurking on this site for YEARS. For some reason though, the idea of posting has been nerve-rattling even though everyone is technically anonymous.

Udi Dahan's "Learn Advanced Distributed Systems Design" course. https://particular.net/adsd At one point, I was considering paying out of pocket to attend the course. Fortunately, …