Working for a startup makes less sense

Post by jefftk » Thu, Jan 02, 2020, 11:24 PM UTC

viklove wrote: post #390

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I'm in Boston, and our rent was about $1100/month for a couple. Rents are higher now ( https://www.jefftk.com/p/boston-rents-over-time ) and we have kids now. Taxes would be higher but we donate 50% of our income ( https://www.jefftk.com/donations ) so I'm not sure how you'd count that? Also, I didn't have ~9 years of full time work when I started at Google, I had 3.5. My first full time programming job started fall…

If you were making 60k+ through your college "internships," I would put them at the same level as full-time work. My first college internship was $9/hour with no benefits, and it lasted 6 weeks... Also, donations are discretionary, so you wouldn't count them at all -- you would just count your salary minus your tax rate (not counting deductions, so that the average Joe can get some context).

If you look back at https://www.jefftk.com/money you'll see I wasn't earning more than $12/hr until my first programming job in fall 2008.

Post by senderista » Sun, Jan 05, 2020, 7:19 AM UTC

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> Kubernetes is a solution worse than the problem. Not if you're a 1,000+ engineer org with an SOA. > Microservices are unix pipes but slower. Humans are way more expensive than the machines running our code. You can always spend more on spinning up additional instances. In reality the overhead isn't that bad. The principles of immutable stateless deploys free up so much mental energy when it comes to thinking about…

>> Kubernetes is a solution worse than the problem. > Not if you're a 1,000+ engineer org with an SOA. The fact that most FAANGs (Amazon especially) developed their own systems that are not Kubernetes, and often much simpler, should make you think. Many don't even use containers - by design. (Source: direct experience)

Amazon didn't have the kernel expertise to develop kernel features required for containers like Google did, and had massive sunk costs in their bespoke hacky solution (Apollo environments).

Re: Working for a startup makes less sense

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